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Speaker 1: Great to have you with us, Magic Fans for another

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Speaker 1: episode of Magic od Squad. This time we have the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to catch up with the Magic Legend where Shard Lewis,

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Speaker 1: you helped get this team to the two thousand and

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Speaker 2: Magic Fans, the.

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Speaker 1: Florida Department of Transportation reminds you that fans don't let

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Speaker 1: right sirs. Remember drive sober or get pulled over. Have

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Speaker 1: a great night and drive safe. All lots to get

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Speaker 1: into here with Rashard Lewis, including that run to the

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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine NBA files. So many big shots

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Speaker 1: for Rashard along the way and he breaks down each

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Speaker 1: and every one of them, playing alongside you know, Turkleu,

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Speaker 1: Dwight Howard. That was a magic team that kind of

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Speaker 1: started this furras of three point shooting back in the day. Also,

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Speaker 1: his basketball journey that took him through the Pacific Northwest

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Speaker 1: has started Seattle and ultimately his decision to come to

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Speaker 1: City Viewers. Lots of good stuff to get into with

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Speaker 1: Magic big Man Rashard Lewis on this edition of Magic

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Speaker 1: Pod Squad. This is Fawns long Enough to Orlando Magic.

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Speaker 2: This is Cole Anthony, this is Jennon Suggs.

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Speaker 3: This is Paulo Ban Carroll the Orlando Magic and you're

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Speaker 3: listening to the Pod Squad.

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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome everyone to another edition of Magic Pod Squad.

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Speaker 1: Dante Marcateelli, George Galate and quite Frank to George one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest magic players.

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Speaker 2: We've ever had.

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Speaker 1: Rishard lewis kind enough to join us from Magic Pod Squad.

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Speaker 1: And I tell you what it is. How great is

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Speaker 1: it being back here? But it is a blast for

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Speaker 1: us to have you back here for But it feels

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Speaker 1: like old times.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, It's always a blast coming back to Orlando

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Speaker 2: because it just brings back so many memories and all

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Speaker 2: those memories are great memories. So I love this city,

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Speaker 2: you know, because it's one of the best sides of

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Speaker 2: my career. It was was it was one of them.

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Speaker 3: It's like he can still play by I'm not buying it.

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Speaker 3: You could play if I put you on, could I

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Speaker 3: could you give me fifteen minutes right now?

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Speaker 2: I can give you offense, no defense, that's not no

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Speaker 2: blocking size. I can give you some corner three parts

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Speaker 2: or something perfect. The league has gone home on.

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Speaker 4: Well, let everybody know what you're up to now, which

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Speaker 4: I know last year you were on the sidelines. You

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Speaker 4: were you were coaching with the Detroit Pistons. You've been

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Speaker 4: in the Big Three since its existence. Just what what

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Speaker 4: are you up to now?

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Speaker 2: Pretty much like you said, I was with first year

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Speaker 2: coaching with the Detroit Pistons. Last year, coach Casey brung

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Speaker 2: me on. He drafted me when I played with the

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Speaker 2: Seattle Super soonest and kind of raised me from a

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Speaker 2: young kid into a man. So he asked me to

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Speaker 2: I feel like the next chapter in life for me

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Speaker 2: of being able to still be around the game and

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Speaker 2: looking forward to continue to do it, you know, in

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Speaker 2: the future as well as during the summertime playing the

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Speaker 2: basketball at a high level. So I feel like that's

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Speaker 2: that's still professional to me because you got a lot

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, a lot of coach because that makes

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're retired?

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Speaker 2: I do, but but you know, like I said, it

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Speaker 3: So how was the your coaching that was? That was

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Speaker 2: No, I really enjoyed it. I loved it. A lot

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Speaker 2: I did it for seventeen years. True, it's nothing for me.

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Speaker 2: just because the fact that I've done it. You know,

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Speaker 4: And really a little more stiff on the water flight now.

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Speaker 2: Daf definitely that I'm older, but that's when you just

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Speaker 4: What they What are the guys nowadays asking you when

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Speaker 2: I will always tell the guys you know, you stick

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Speaker 2: And that was a big thing that I was saying

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Speaker 2: you gotta stick with it. You know you're gonna have

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure clicks in differently for everybody, right,

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Speaker 2: And when you get that experience, the conference level goes up,

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Speaker 2: It was all about winning ball games, and when you're young,

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Speaker 2: it's all about me, me me. I want to be

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Speaker 2: It's all about, you know, the individual person. But when

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Speaker 3: As did you call any of your old coaches back

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Speaker 3: say and say, hey, I'm really sorry, I got it

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Speaker 2: Did definitely get it, you know, being a little bad

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Speaker 2: I think sometimes, like I said, some kids are very talented.

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Speaker 4: You know, we think about when he came here in

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Speaker 4: oh seven, right, you played parts of four years with

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Speaker 4: the Magic Right looking at it today, and I obviously

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Speaker 1: That's not trumers in Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Years in Seattle.

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Speaker 4: That is a phenomenal career for a right that you

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Speaker 4: had a whole journey. I imagine Ray Allen was one

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Speaker 4: What I mean, nine years in Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, nine years in Seattle, and that's when

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Speaker 2: I had my best season. When Ray came for the team.

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Speaker 2: I played with Gary Payton for the first two years,

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Speaker 2: and then Gary Payton was traded for Reality. And when

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Speaker 2: You know, we see Jesus set us work, not Reality.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're young guys in the locker room. Listen

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Speaker 2: to every story he tells us right, But it wasn't

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Speaker 2: the work we put in during the summer, working on

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna go shoot. He's like, I didn't already

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Speaker 2: All Star in his league, you have to be consistent,

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Speaker 3: But you were a big reason for that success because

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Speaker 3: Guys kind of revolutionize revolutionize the game a little bit,

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Speaker 2: Long as we win basketball games, right, nobody's talking bad

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Speaker 2: It's there here. And that's why I really like Stan,

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Speaker 2: So when Stan tells you your role, look, you're a defender,

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Speaker 2: because we don't want to have no type of friction

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Speaker 3: I don't know why that dinner sticks with me even

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Speaker 4: Well, and you're and you're going at this revolutionized in

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Speaker 1: Right now, you're leading the league in three is made.

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Speaker 1: And that was that I hadn't been done till that point, right,

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Speaker 2: what he had, and that's why, you know, those are

435
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Speaker 2: some of the best coaches. And that's why I still

436
00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,720
Speaker 2: think stand is one of the best coaches that I've

437
00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,919
Speaker 2: ever played for, because he's always made adjustments, if it

438
00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,280
Speaker 2: was during the game or in the playoffs, whatever it was,

439
00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:14,639
Speaker 2: or the type of players he had, if it was

440
00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,240
Speaker 2: a trade made visc Carter coming to the team, whatever

441
00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,119
Speaker 2: it was, he made adjustment with within the organization.

442
00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,760
Speaker 4: You know, it's is We just had Ryan Anderson on

443
00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,720
Speaker 4: the podcast recently as well, and he said when he

444
00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,440
Speaker 4: first got here, he couldn't do anything right.

445
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,200
Speaker 1: Stan rode with him and.

446
00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,400
Speaker 4: He's just hug You're laughing because you heard you heard

447
00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,880
Speaker 4: those guys he said Shark could do no wrong.

448
00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,359
Speaker 3: He did say that he ever Shark was his favorite.

449
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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you feel that with the stan ever get on? Well,

450
00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:41,200
Speaker 1: I never.

451
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:45,800
Speaker 2: Heard Stan gets on everybody. Sure, sure he does. Stan

452
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,600
Speaker 2: gets on us. He gets on everything were not doing.

453
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Speaker 1: I also never heard of Yellow you had a special relation.

454
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Speaker 1: You either did everything right.

455
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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't want said Ever sacrificed. I think

456
00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,200
Speaker 2: I think he appreciated the sacrifice, but not only that. No,

457
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Speaker 2: I'm not a bit talkative guy that's gonna be screaming

458
00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,639
Speaker 2: and yelling and practice. I live by example, Yeah, putting

459
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,160
Speaker 2: the work in getting their early standing, after practice, getting

460
00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,000
Speaker 2: up shots, or in the weight room to getting my

461
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,720
Speaker 2: body together, whatever it was, I live by example, and

462
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,280
Speaker 2: I was always you know, I always practice hard. I

463
00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 2: would always do, you know, whatever coach wanted me to do, because,

464
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,399
Speaker 2: like I said, I felt like as one of the

465
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,800
Speaker 2: cabins of the team, if you don't do it, the

466
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,920
Speaker 2: other guys want to fallow behind. So I've always been

467
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 2: just that type of person to do, you know, the

468
00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,720
Speaker 2: right thing and try to win ball games that way,

469
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,640
Speaker 2: especially with a guy like stand being the coach.

470
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Speaker 4: Now I think about that finals run, right, and I'm

471
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 4: sitting there thinking, then this guy hit a lot of

472
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Speaker 4: big shots, I mean big shots with all of us

473
00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,520
Speaker 4: praying go in, go in. I got a huge, mega

474
00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,640
Speaker 4: shot and I went back and looked at it. That

475
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,520
Speaker 4: eighth nine year clutch situations, Right, you're talking in the

476
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,880
Speaker 4: last two three minutes of a basketball game, close within

477
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Speaker 4: five points either way, Vince Carter was the most clutch

478
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Speaker 4: player in the NBA, and we had that year.

479
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Speaker 1: Really we ended up adding oh.

480
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Speaker 3: You're talking about eight o nine.

481
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 2: We ended up adding here right right right.

482
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Speaker 1: Number two in the whole league was Rashard Lewis.

483
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Speaker 3: That doesn't surprise me.

484
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 2: I can think of six las off the top of

485
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Speaker 2: my head that.

486
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 1: But would you have known to that level?

487
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Speaker 3: No, we No, I just I can think of I

488
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,439
Speaker 3: can think of the Detroit I can think of the

489
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,160
Speaker 3: Detroit game winner. I can think of the Boston banker

490
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 3: at the buzzer. I can think of the Cleveland game

491
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 3: winner on the win, and then I could think of

492
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Speaker 3: the Cleveland three pointer in the corner that tied it that,

493
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, maybe we didn't even go to the finals.

494
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Speaker 3: If you don't hit that shot, what.

495
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Speaker 4: Else what else I got them on the top of

496
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Speaker 4: I want to touch on those.

497
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Speaker 3: You have notes, I have no notes.

498
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Speaker 2: It's all in my head.

499
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Speaker 4: The individually, but to be because we know he hit

500
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Speaker 4: big shots. But but there was a clutch gene about

501
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,439
Speaker 4: you your whole career, but something special that year. What

502
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 4: is it about being?

503
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Speaker 2: You know, we haven't the ball out Gane, the second

504
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 2: and the clutch. I had no clue about this that

505
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Speaker 2: I think. Uh, I'm just always I'm just.

506
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Speaker 3: He made it up by way. He made the stat

507
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Speaker 3: up side of el.

508
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Speaker 1: Think it helps me.

509
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 2: Look good. No, go ahead, I'm saying fifty.

510
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,440
Speaker 4: Percent to the floor in forty four percent from three

511
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Speaker 4: in the clutch, second.

512
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Speaker 2: Best in the envent. I don't know. I just had

513
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 2: that attitude of I just wanted to win, and I

514
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 2: felt like I always felt like I'm gonna make every shot.

515
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 2: I'm not a high volume shit. I'm not gonna go

516
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,880
Speaker 2: out there and shoot thirty shots just to get twenty points.

517
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 2: You know, maybe twelve. I wasn't a high volume shooter.

518
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,879
Speaker 2: But I've always felt like, give me the ball at

519
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 2: the end the game, I'm gonna make the shot. You know,

520
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 2: even if I were missed the shot. I go home

521
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:36,919
Speaker 2: and I think about that shot all night long. But

522
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 2: I just felt like I wanted to win so bad.

523
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,399
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you trust you for to trust me.

524
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make this right. That's the mat I think there.

525
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Speaker 3: I think there's a couple of things with that, Like

526
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,440
Speaker 3: number one, it's that, and number two, like your demeanor

527
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 3: all the time is very even, keel right, and you

528
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 3: don't get too high, you don't get too low. Everything

529
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 3: you look on and you always know Rashar is in

530
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Speaker 3: control of his emotions.

531
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Speaker 4: Of nervous every time out the ball, every time we

532
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:04,880
Speaker 4: touched the ball, I was a wreck.

533
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 2: Please don't throw this. In the fifth throw, please don't throw.

534
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: He was so clutched.

535
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Speaker 3: But you're though, you're Jamiir, Jamiir rishard Hto. We're probably

536
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 3: three of the best clutch players in the league over

537
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 3: that like three four years time span, right, But with you,

538
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 3: it was like I just I never it was never

539
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,639
Speaker 3: a doubt to me that that ball was going to

540
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 3: go in if you got it at the end, I

541
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 3: just knew it was going to go in. I haven't

542
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:32,719
Speaker 3: felt that way in a long time. By the way,

543
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 3: it's been like.

544
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Speaker 2: I miss you and also on that during that time,

545
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 2: we had such dominant alpha males on the team that

546
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Speaker 2: even he don't felt like he would make shot Jamir

547
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,400
Speaker 2: Dwight Howard. You know, we was just at a point

548
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,880
Speaker 2: where we had that chemistry and we were so bonded. Yeah,

549
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 2: we're gonna make this out. We're gonn You're gonna have

550
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 2: to beat us. You're not gonna come in and just

551
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 2: make it. It's gonna be easy win. You gotta beat us.

552
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 2: You have to take it from It's gonna go down

553
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,040
Speaker 2: to the last second for you to beat.

554
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Speaker 4: Well in Turkey big shots too. But we got so

555
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 4: we got video. We're gonna roll this in after the fact.

556
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,199
Speaker 2: I wish we could. We are. We're going to roll

557
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 2: things a little and after we do.

558
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 4: I wish you could see it that we go we're

559
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 4: huge right now.

560
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I didn't know we did that.

561
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: But that Game one against Cleveland, here you are in

562
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference.

563
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 2: Fire.

564
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 4: You just beat Boston. You just blew them out on

565
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 4: their floor. And after the conference in Game seven in Boston,

566
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 4: the whole world is expecting Lebron and Kobe.

567
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 2: Yes, were they not commercials all year long? The Muffets

568
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 2: Kobe Lebron, Kobe Lebron all year. That's all they wanted

569
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 2: to see in the final.

570
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 1: That's a little chip, I would think on your shoulder.

571
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 2: It was a big chip on all of our shoulders

572
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 2: every week. You know, we took that person because we

573
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 2: felt like it was one of the best teams in

574
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 2: the league in the East at the time, us Cleveland

575
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 2: as well as Boston. But you know they started that

576
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 2: early in the season and commercial it was that was

577
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 2: like all Star bres almost predicted that Lakers versus Cleveland.

578
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 2: So you know, we we we took that person.

579
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Speaker 1: But you go to the end of game one. Now

580
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Speaker 1: here you are the big bad Cleveland Calves who everybody's

581
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 1: assumes going to go. You're on their floor.

582
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 4: They lost like three games that whole year at home. Right,

583
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 4: balls in your hands with four seconds left with a

584
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 4: chance to steal game one.

585
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 2: Right.

586
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 3: This is after by the way, and we had one

587
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 3: of our assistant coaches with Steve Hetzel at the time,

588
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 3: who was an assistant coach with Cleveland during that team,

589
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 3: and he liked to remind us that that they were

590
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 3: up by twenty something.

591
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 2: Points, like that good point game. They were a good

592
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 2: point and we were getting smoked very I could just

593
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 2: about to say that Game one, we was excited. Eastern

594
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 2: Conference Finals. You know, we in Cleveland, we take the

595
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 2: bus ride to the arena to go over for Game one.

596
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 2: Streets is just filled with people. You know, they booing

597
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 2: us as we're getting police as scored to the arena.

598
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 2: So yo, crazy, like we're excited. Right first quarter game

599
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 2: Stars ball goes up. It was boom boom boom. We

600
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,679
Speaker 2: was like first time out. We go to the bench,

601
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 2: were down maybe ten to fifteen points, and we look

602
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 2: at each other. We looking around like we just get

603
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 2: ourselves into a stands, just like, calm down, everybody, just relax,

604
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 2: take us chip away at it. We're not gonna get

605
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 2: it all back in one play. Just calm down. I

606
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: think that first time out kind of relaxed. Every day

607
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 2: I relaxed. We were still tense and you know, ready

608
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 2: to play. Kind of reset. It was reset, yeah, because

609
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 2: we it was just like it was too fast for us.

610
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 2: We reset it, started chipping away at it, and I

611
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 2: think we was cut the league by halftime. I think

612
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 2: it was down maybe a couple points now, but I

613
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 2: can say that first quarter it was like, oh my God.

614
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 4: I had to been thinking, Wow, we get ourselves into it,

615
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 4: like you said, but now you fight back and the

616
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 4: game comes down to you with the ball in your head.

617
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 2: Fight back down to the last second. I remember coaching

618
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 2: goowing up a play. You know, I'm feeling good. I

619
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 2: started off first half not playing too well, but second

620
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 2: half started playing well. I was playing a lot better,

621
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 2: started getting a little rhythm, and I can remember, you know,

622
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 2: like I said, when it come down to those that

623
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 2: end of the game, I want to win. I don't

624
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 2: care how we're gonna do it. Let's win. But I

625
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 2: remember Turkeyu passing me that ball in the wing, and

626
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 2: I had Verisida was guarding me, and you know, I

627
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 2: felt like every time a BIG's on me, I'm going

628
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 2: to beat you to the basket. I'm quite quicker than you,

629
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: so I tried to drive him to the basket. He

630
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 2: played great defense. I remember kicking it back out to

631
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 2: Turkeulu at the top of the key. But I wanted

632
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: to win and my instinct was going to get the ball,

633
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 2: so I just come running back out to the three

634
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 2: point line, you know, like kind of waving my hands

635
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 2: like pass it back and he gives it back to me,

636
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 2: knowing Turculu.

637
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 3: We don't.

638
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 2: He don't like to pass the ball a lot he wants. Yeah,

639
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 2: he ended up giving it back to me and I

640
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 2: gave Ver's our jab step and he thought I was

641
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 2: gonna drive it again and I just raised up and

642
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: when they went through the net. When I say the excitement,

643
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 2: I had the chills, the feeling. I think I started

644
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 2: pumping my chest looking over to the Spinch. You know,

645
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 2: everybody is so happy. I mean just the magnitude of

646
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 2: that game, Eastern Conference Finals, game one on the road,

647
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 2: playing against the best team in the NBA, had the

648
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 2: best record that year, Lebron James, best player in the league.

649
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 2: You no our back. I mean everything was against us

650
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 2: and our back. The building was insane. It was insane.

651
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 2: It was the loudest building I've ever played in. The

652
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 2: atmosphere was crazy. To steal Game one was a big deal.

653
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 3: Is that do you just do you have that like

654
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 3: bookmarked on your phone and then that's how you go

655
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 3: to sleep every night? Real quick before you go to sleep,

656
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 3: You're like, let me just watch this fifteen seconds real quick.

657
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 3: That's how I would go to sleep every night.

658
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 2: No, that's the side that I always remember, but not

659
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 2: only that, but I don't I think still in Game

660
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 2: one is a big key to us getting to the finals.

661
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 2: We don't get game one absolutely.

662
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 3: Well, that's what you're thinking.

663
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 4: The story that you're telling is the story that Turk

664
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 4: wishes he could tell because it gave two.

665
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: He is right, he makes the why it should have

666
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 2: been the game, the game winner.

667
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 3: Now Lebron make that miracle shot.

668
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: Every year I have to watch this, and not only that,

669
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 2: it was only what Every year I gotta watch it

670
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 2: to the NBA TV, they always show it either to

671
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 2: highlight or they showing that game. But I think it

672
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: was like one point something seconds left because it was

673
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 2: only like that last time tick it in or catching

674
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: let it go. And like I said, I remember this

675
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 2: to this day. I'm guarding the guy on the inbounds

676
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 2: as he throws the button, and the play was. You know,

677
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 2: we figured they wanted to try to get a lib

678
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 2: tip in or whatever because you don't have time, So

679
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: we cut the lob off for Lebron to get the tip,

680
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 2: but we cut all the paint off. We playing the paint.

681
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 2: You're not getting a tip in. So he somehow runs

682
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 2: to the back to the top of the key, and

683
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 2: I remember the ball being passed to him and I'm

684
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 2: following the ball. I'm the inbound im guarding the inbounder.

685
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 2: Ball goes to him. I'm following the ball and I'm

686
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 2: running to where the ball's going. Lebron catches it. If

687
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 2: you go back and watch the replay, Turculeus contested it,

688
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 2: but you can see me come flying by to try

689
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 2: to well you try, and he shot it, and you know,

690
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 2: we like, we got this game too, And when it

691
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 2: goes in the arena erupts and we like kind of

692
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 2: looking around like did that really just happen? Yes, we

693
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 2: thought we was going up to zero. Were for sure

694
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 2: knew we was in the driver's seatd this serious? Now

695
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 2: it's a whole new ball game. Yes, from a one

696
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 2: second shot from the top of the key.

697
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a miracle shot. But you you recover.

698
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 4: You go back and win game three at home and

699
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 4: then there was a feeling George that I I remember,

700
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: and magic fans fell.

701
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: Game four is almost just as important. You can't go

702
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: back up there too, too.

703
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 3: You had to get well, you have to you have

704
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 3: to hold home court at that to get it.

705
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 4: And it goes to you again in the corner with

706
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 4: the big shot, end up going overtime and winning. But

707
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 4: now you get your number called again. I would think

708
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 4: if I'm Cleveland, I'm not letting Richard beat me.

709
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 2: Right for some reason, Like I said, I think it

710
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 2: was down two points at the time.

711
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, way were down down, one.

712
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 4: Down, one down one didn't need a three, but went

713
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 4: fur all of it.

714
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was wide open, I mean, staying a

715
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 2: little such a great play, you know, me and Dwight

716
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: at the elbows, and I think it was screening down

717
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 2: for I don't know if it's Turkey Lou or Jamir

718
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 2: coming up, but that was just a decoy screen. Yeah,

719
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: I mean, and I see a lot of teams running

720
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 2: this place to this day and people bring it up.

721
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 2: But you know, after I set that screen, Dwight turns

722
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: and screen for me. And you know I like to

723
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: post up on that right block, so the right side

724
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 2: is one of my best. You know, I need to

725
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 2: shoot the jump hook or I love to turn over

726
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: the right should learn that from a kim Olaji won

727
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 2: the dream shake. Turn over my right shoulder to shoot

728
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 2: the shot, the fadeaway shot. So me turned over my

729
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 2: shoulder to shoot that three was almost a money shot

730
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: for me because I worked on it all the time

731
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 2: and I post up all the time. So coming off

732
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 2: of that right side, catching it and turning over my

733
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: right shoulder, it was like and he told coach, told me,

734
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 2: if you're open, let it, go shoot it. You know.

735
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: If you're not open them, you know, go to the basket,

736
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: you know, make a plate. But if you're open for

737
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: the three, you can have to shoot it. And nobody

738
00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: was on me right and I'm turned over my right

739
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: showed it, which is a rhythm shot for me, and

740
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: it was nothing, you know, nothing, but he made it

741
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 2: and the arena he erupted it.

742
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 3: Oh my god, talk to you talk about the arena erupting, like,

743
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 3: talk about the city at that point when we were

744
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 3: making you know, the all the years you were here, really,

745
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 3: I mean, just talk about the fan base and the

746
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: energy that white.

747
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's what was going on in the city

748
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 2: of Orlando. It was ignited throughout the playoffs and it

749
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 2: even bigger in the finals. Did you know. That's what

750
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 2: it was all about. Who was trying our best win

751
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 2: the championship for the city of Orlando, for the de

752
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: Vos family, because the energy. I mean that not only

753
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 2: that year the fans was great, but in the finals

754
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: it just went to a whole nother level. Man. The

755
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 2: city was great, the arena was packed. It was just

756
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 2: it was a good feeling to have in here. And

757
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 2: you know, in the in the Orlando area, especially when

758
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 2: we was on a road playing playoff games. We would

759
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 2: come back, the fans will be buzzed. They couldn't wait

760
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: for us to come back back road. It was great.

761
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: It was a lot of I don't think we knew

762
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: how special it was, so we tried to never take

763
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: it for granted.

764
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 4: But man, it was just a spout. I mean, it's you.

765
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 4: You're lucky in your career to experience it once. You

766
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 4: got to go on and win a championship. You got

767
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 4: to do it again, which is phenomenal. Down in Miami.

768
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 2: I'm not bitter at all. Why did I have to

769
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 2: be with any other team?

770
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 3: But they for God, good Lord.

771
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 4: All right, But it seems like you get to the

772
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 4: NBA Finals and then Game one kind of seemed like

773
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 4: a little bit of what happened in Game one in Cleveland, right,

774
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 4: It kind of maybe the speed or the right right, right,

775
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 4: But man, you thirty four seven and thirty four eleven

776
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 4: and seven in Game two for Rashard.

777
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.

778
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, that does not you were on a missioning game.

779
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 2: I was on a mission to win. I saw all

780
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 2: I was thinking about was win, win. When we got

781
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 2: to win ball games. I think that first half of

782
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 2: played really well. Yeah, especially in the first half. And

783
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 2: you know, after that Game one loss, we didn't only

784
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 2: lose a close game, we got beat pre We got

785
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: beat up pretty bad. So you know, staying laid into us,

786
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 2: we got on field session, but as players, as individuals,

787
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 2: you know, we got a man up. And I've heard

788
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 2: the rumors in the media. We saw all they're not

789
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 2: fit for this day. It's like I think Paul Pierce said,

790
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 2: like it's like a rock Wiler versus a chihuahua. So

791
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 2: you know, we we heard it all, and I mean

792
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 2: it didn't hurt our feelings, but we knew we had

793
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 2: to bring a different level of play because we're in

794
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 2: the finals playing against Kobe Bryant and you know, the Lakers.

795
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: So I just was locked in. Came out playing well,

796
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 2: shooting the ball very well, and we almost had a

797
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 2: chance to win that game, end up missing lay up

798
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 2: to go to old time. But I think if we

799
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 2: win game two, definitely a totally different series of files.

800
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 2: Not saying we will win it all, but it's a

801
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,439
Speaker 2: different serious because during that time it was two three two.

802
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 2: So we played the two. Say we split one one

803
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 2: and we come to Orlando to play three games, and

804
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 2: we still we win the first game at home. Of course,

805
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 2: I think game four, Fisher, it's a crazy shot shot. Yeah,

806
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 2: he ain't makes shots all game long.

807
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 3: He was over he was over five. I think at

808
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 3: that point, right.

809
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 4: Even we win that game of example, well you were

810
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 4: about to tie the series. You're about to tie the

811
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 4: series up, that's right, and it's kind of back.

812
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 2: To zero zero three games series. Of course we would

813
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 2: have to go back to la But at the same time,

814
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 2: you want to be competing, you know. And and when

815
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 2: officially hit that that three, I felt like it took

816
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 2: a little bit of hair out of us because we

817
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 2: didn't play the same way the very next That's a

818
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 2: good point. Yeah, you know, it just felt like I

819
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 2: kind of did it.

820
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 3: It took air out of me and I wasn't playing

821
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,760
Speaker 3: like I just I just find I would you felt

822
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 3: like it, oh, man, Like that was one, we another one.

823
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 2: We let Yeah, down two one is different going down

824
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 2: three one.

825
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 3: That's that's a big hole.

826
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: I remember that.

827
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 4: I remember the time out for the Courtney League because

828
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 4: I was doing sidelines and I'd have my head in

829
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 4: all those timeouts, and I remember him drawing up that

830
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 4: play and it must have been something you guys worked

831
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 4: on a bunch, because I remember seeing the diagram Ember

832
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 4: thinking oh.

833
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: Shit, this this could work.

834
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, this could work.

835
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 4: And he and heto says, Courtney keeps telling him make

836
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 4: sure the balls there, make sure the buzz, make.

837
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: Sure, make sure it took it.

838
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 3: And his answer, don't worry, bro, I get it there.

839
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: Come on, man, don't hello, Bet, just get there, just

840
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: get it there.

841
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 2: I'll get it.

842
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: It almost happened. It was a tough shot.

843
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 2: But he oh my goodness, it was a tough soun.

844
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 2: Was a great pass. Tough shot. I mean, it's just sports.

845
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: Sometimes it happens. I don't want to say Courtney leaves, oh,

846
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 2: of course, because one shot doesn't determine how the game.

847
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 2: So it's a bunch of Look.

848
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 4: That building was like, I mean, it felt like are

849
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 4: you for a second ball game?

850
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: Right then? It felt it was that well drawn up.

851
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 2: It was. It was well drawn up, great play. Just

852
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 2: ball just didn't go our way that night.

853
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 1: No, no, but sure did well. I think this is awesome.

854
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: I g we could reminisce and go down memory.

855
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 2: About all kind of stuff. Now, the Philly series when

856
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 2: Dwight gets suspended, we beating them out in their court,

857
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 2: Boston Game seven on Derek Court. I mean, it was

858
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 2: just one of those years, like we we fought tooth

859
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 2: and nail to do to win ball games.

860
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 4: And we feel as good as that year was. And

861
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 4: you went to the NBA Finals, where would you rank

862
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 4: the old nine ten him?

863
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 2: They were just as good work that was just as

864
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 2: good you guys, you get Blue through that probably even better.

865
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I contend we were better the second go around.

866
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:15,760
Speaker 2: It's just sometimes things are happening getting to the finals.

867
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 2: You always want to say that's a better team, because

868
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 2: if I say I won a championship, a better team.

869
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 2: But just like I mean, you team could be stacked.

870
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 2: You have one injury to your team, it can it

871
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 2: can mess the whole season up, even if it's just

872
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 2: a role player like Peters is a great role player.

873
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 2: Tachers get hurt. You know, he's our coat he's going

874
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 2: he's our best defender. He's going to Lebron James, He's

875
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: going court Bryant. You know, he's guarding all these guys

876
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 2: that we need him to guard one role player gainst

877
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 2: Hurst and may change the whole season. We may not

878
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 2: even make it to the finals. So you know, you

879
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 2: held a lot goes into trying to be successful in was.

880
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 4: Michael Petri is the only guy who played with They

881
00:37:53,680 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 4: gave himself his old nicknames.

882
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 2: Off. Can I say.

883
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: He was great though? He was a big part of it.

884
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 2: Everybody was.

885
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: It was a great time.

886
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 4: It was just an unbelievable time to be here.

887
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 2: It was central Florida, not only for the basketball players

888
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 2: and the staff, but for the city. It was great times.

889
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 2: That's why every time I come back, I feel like

890
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 2: I'm walking with open doorms, not only by the organization

891
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 2: but by the fans in Orlando.

892
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 3: You know.

893
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 2: That's why I always called this my second home.

894
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 3: Wow, you've gotten to see the Advent Health Training Center. Yes,

895
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 3: what are your thoughts? It's hard. People ask me, and

896
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 3: we'll talk to some former players and they're like, Hey,

897
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 3: how's that how's that practice facility? You guys have down there.

898
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 3: I'm like, you really don't know until you see it,

899
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 3: So you see tell.

900
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 2: Me that I've been hearing all about it. Yeah, but

901
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 2: first time seeing it today, and it's great, it's amazing.

902
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 2: I mean, it's one of it. It's got to be

903
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 2: the one of the it's got to be the best

904
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 2: practic facility in the NBA, at least for now until

905
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 2: five years down and road somebody else go build something else.

906
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 2: So our goal see somebody come in and see this

907
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 2: facility and try to copy it. Yeah, copy it in

908
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 2: and on tour. But you know, like I said, this

909
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: facility is first class. I mean, I've never seen a

910
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 2: heel in the.

911
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: Weight room right right right on lap.

912
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 2: Pool as well. You know, it's it's definitely all the things.

913
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 2: These players have no excuses to get better there you go, right,

914
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 2: you know, get healthy, get better.

915
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 3: You have no excuses now that you're removed a little

916
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 3: bit from the game, and your kids were really little

917
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 3: when you were here, yes, and now that you're you know,

918
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 3: and we talked about it, that's fourteen fifteen years ago,

919
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 3: which is crazy to think about because Russ it does

920
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 3: feel like right, it feels like yesterday.

921
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 2: Like do you look back.

922
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 3: Do you set the kids down and say, hey, let's

923
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 3: check out what dad was back in the day, Like, yeah, yeah,

924
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 3: I do. How do they react to that?

925
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 2: They love, especially when I come back to Orlando. When

926
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 2: I bring them back and we go to the games,

927
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 2: they see my pitches on the wall or they always see,

928
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: you know, the treatment I get when I'm playing when

929
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 2: I'm here in Orlando. They they they they excited about it.

930
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 2: And every time I get ready to come back to Orlando,

931
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: I'm always telling you, I'm about to go to Orlando,

932
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 2: I gotta do some events. So I do some charity events,

933
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 2: you know, with the Magic, and they know that this

934
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 2: is probably my favorite team that I played on throughout

935
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 2: my career, even though I was drafted as a young

936
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 2: kid and grew from a boy to a man in Seattle,

937
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 2: won a championship in Miami. But this was the best

938
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 2: time in my career playing with Orlando Magic, not only

939
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 2: because the teammates, I had great coaching staff, but like

940
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 2: I said, the seat of Orlando. You know, they welcomed

941
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 2: us all with open arms and we was treated great,

942
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 2: such a specialty.

943
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: I show my kids the shots that.

944
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 3: Night, so I hope I'm gonna go watch them tonight again.

945
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: Watch it was just it was a little embarrassing. It

946
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: was it was It.

947
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 4: Was an awesome time. And listen, it's thirty five years

948
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 4: of magic history. Yeah, and we're excited to have you,

949
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 4: you know, be in town more, to come around more often.

950
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 2: Of course.

951
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, we need Rashard Lewis around more. How do we

952
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 3: How do we get that? How do we do that?

953
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 2: I'm one phone call away, all right, But one thing

954
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 2: I can't say is I can't wait to see the

955
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 2: city get back to that trip, that type of basketball,

956
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 2: which I think is coming real soon, you know, to

957
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: have a bright future, and the organization is always working

958
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 2: to to get good players here and to make them,

959
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 2: you know, a playoff team. And I can't wait to

960
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 2: see the excitement back in the city of Orlando when

961
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 2: they're back in the playoffs, not on the playoffs, but

962
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 2: hopefully win the championship. I love it.

963
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 1: There's a buzz coming people. It's very excited about this team.

964
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 2: You gotta have patience. Patient, that's the key, you know,

965
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 2: Like I said, with young guys, it doesn't nobody's winning

966
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 2: the championship nineteen twenty years old. Maybe n C double

967
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 2: a turner, But the NBA Championship is very tough, so

968
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 2: the fans just have to have patience. Just like when

969
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 2: I came here that first year. We got better every year.

970
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 2: We went from first round making it to trying to

971
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 2: get past Detroit and Boston ended up getting past them

972
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 2: making it to the finals. But it didn't happen in

973
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 2: one year. It was a couple of years.

974
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 3: It feels like it happened in one year.

975
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,959
Speaker 4: Away these guys got a lot easier.

976
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: You got clotheslined by the pistons for three years.

977
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 2: That was that.

978
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 4: You can't do that anymore. Changed a little bit, but Rashard,

979
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 4: this was awesome. Thank you so much and we look

980
00:41:58,840 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 4: forward to keeping up with you here.

981
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for it. Thank you for one

982
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 2: of our favorites for Charlotte's. That'll do it.

983
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: For this edition of Magic Pod Squad