1
00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,320
Speaker 1: Welcome to this League Uncut in the rule of twenty

2
00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:10,160
Speaker 1: four hour NBA News. This is you, Chris Haynes's telling

3
00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:18,800
Speaker 1: Mark Stein, it's so time. This League Uncut is underway

4
00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:19,840
Speaker 1: and on fire.

5
00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,000
Speaker 2: This should be a good one.

6
00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,560
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, this is gonna be a good one.

7
00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,000
Speaker 4: Look, I feel like Mark Stein because mark Stein usually

8
00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,440
Speaker 4: gets to come off it.

9
00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:32,440
Speaker 3: Let's spot out the intro.

10
00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,919
Speaker 4: But this is me this time, Chris Haynes right here

11
00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,159
Speaker 4: of this league gonna cut my guy Mark Stein. I'm

12
00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:41,560
Speaker 4: doing the intro and I'm doing it live from my store,

13
00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,920
Speaker 4: me and my wife's store here in Elk Grove, California,

14
00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:49,840
Speaker 4: Sacramento area. That Charlote's Booty supply got Sacramento kingsguard Davon Mitchell,

15
00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,840
Speaker 4: so he's gonna be a This is gonna be a treat.

16
00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,960
Speaker 4: I hope you guys enjoy. We got mark Stein still

17
00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,720
Speaker 4: in Dallas. He couldn't make it, but look he pulled through.

18
00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,000
Speaker 4: He still came on to do the show, and I

19
00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,880
Speaker 4: appreciate my brother mark Stein for that. But without further ado,

20
00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,960
Speaker 4: let's go this League Uncut with Davion Mitch. Come on,

21
00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:16,760
Speaker 4: d let Daveyon get settled in here. So we got

22
00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,280
Speaker 4: Mark Stein, who couldn't be here, but that's my co host. Uh,

23
00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,440
Speaker 4: so he'll he'll be jumping in from here and there,

24
00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,959
Speaker 4: and then we'll open up for the crowd to come,

25
00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:29,920
Speaker 4: you know, to ask a few questions as well.

26
00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,399
Speaker 3: So go ahead and pick that up there and pick

27
00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:38,960
Speaker 3: that up so you could talk in that mic. So yeah,

28
00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:39,600
Speaker 3: you can move there.

29
00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, So d this is let's let's just talk about

30
00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,720
Speaker 4: first of all, the way to the season ended. It

31
00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,680
Speaker 4: was a tough you know, a tough series with the

32
00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,200
Speaker 4: Golden State Warriors. When you think about that series now,

33
00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,120
Speaker 4: now that you're a couple of months removed, what comes

34
00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,800
Speaker 4: to mind about I guess what could have been or

35
00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,360
Speaker 4: any second thoughts on how things were handled or whatever.

36
00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,200
Speaker 5: I mean, I think overall, we end up playing a

37
00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,880
Speaker 5: good series. We end up playing a really good, talented team.

38
00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,200
Speaker 5: Of course, they got a lot of experience, a lot

39
00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,960
Speaker 5: of Hall of Famers on their team, just a lot

40
00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,120
Speaker 5: of good pieces. Man where they've kind of been together

41
00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,119
Speaker 5: for a long time. So we knew it was gonna

42
00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:22,800
Speaker 5: be tough, and I mean I think we made it

43
00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,760
Speaker 5: the toughest for him, taking them to Game seven, Steph

44
00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,480
Speaker 5: had an unbelievable game with fifty points. I mean, a

45
00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,639
Speaker 5: lot of people that's what great to do, so we

46
00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,960
Speaker 5: kind of expect that, but they just got the best

47
00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,280
Speaker 5: of us. I mean, I think we learned a lot

48
00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,880
Speaker 5: from it, though, Like coming into the next season, we

49
00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,400
Speaker 5: know what to look for, we know that the game

50
00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,480
Speaker 5: plan we should have come into the next playoffs we

51
00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:42,639
Speaker 5: end up going again.

52
00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:44,600
Speaker 2: So I mean, I think we learned from it. But

53
00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:45,680
Speaker 2: it was a good series all inough.

54
00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,440
Speaker 3: So you brought up Steph. We're gonna get to him

55
00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:48,960
Speaker 3: later on.

56
00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,960
Speaker 4: But you know, for you in particular, you leave that

57
00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,680
Speaker 4: season that was your second year, So you leave that

58
00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,520
Speaker 4: season thinking what do you have to improve upon? How

59
00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,200
Speaker 4: can you get better? What is the aspect of your

60
00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,800
Speaker 4: game that you learned about? Okay, I need to step

61
00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:06,000
Speaker 4: it up in this area.

62
00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:11,679
Speaker 5: I think every year, it's something that's always been talked about,

63
00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,400
Speaker 5: is just developing my jump shot. That's kind of just

64
00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,880
Speaker 5: been the biggest piece every year, and I mean I

65
00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,760
Speaker 5: think it's making progress. Even when I was in college,

66
00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,240
Speaker 5: I kind of had the same problem my first two years.

67
00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,960
Speaker 5: Then I kept getting better and better each year, and

68
00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,680
Speaker 5: then the more comfortable I get the more confidence I have,

69
00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,200
Speaker 5: the more the shots go in, the better percentages, and

70
00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,000
Speaker 5: the more I play because I can be on the

71
00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,280
Speaker 5: floor because I can shoot the ball and be good defensively.

72
00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,040
Speaker 5: So that's just an aspect that I've been working on

73
00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,240
Speaker 5: even this whole summer. That's kind of like been my

74
00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,880
Speaker 5: main focus is working on a jump shot. So they

75
00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,240
Speaker 5: have no reason not to have no reason for me

76
00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,040
Speaker 5: not to be on the floor. I'm saying it's defensively.

77
00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,640
Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna do what I have to do,

78
00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,120
Speaker 5: and I think offensively, then then I can just kind

79
00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,080
Speaker 5: of be on the floor the whole time.

80
00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,240
Speaker 4: Okay, let me give a shout to Lance Wood's just

81
00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,800
Speaker 4: popped up in here, man, Sacramento's top.

82
00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,920
Speaker 3: For media, and hey, y'all better get to know him. Man,

83
00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,960
Speaker 3: he's just going place. Man, I think you'll just sneak

84
00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:02,440
Speaker 3: up in here.

85
00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:04,880
Speaker 4: I want to give a shout out to my wife,

86
00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,640
Speaker 4: Charlotte Haynes is her store, Charlotte's by Supply.

87
00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:08,760
Speaker 2: Uh.

88
00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,280
Speaker 4: Now, you're doing a good job, and you know I'm

89
00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,320
Speaker 4: trying to help and support you the best I can.

90
00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,600
Speaker 4: So with that, Saidee, A lot of people don't know

91
00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,280
Speaker 4: that that NBA ball. The NBA basketball is different from

92
00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,080
Speaker 4: college basketball and high school basketball. It takes a lot

93
00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,560
Speaker 4: of people a while to get used to just the

94
00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,200
Speaker 4: feel of it. Can you explain that transition from college

95
00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:32,160
Speaker 4: to the NBA basketball.

96
00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's funny because I was a couple of weeks ago,

97
00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,520
Speaker 5: a week and a half Agard, I was at Baylor

98
00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,000
Speaker 5: practicing with their team, playing against their guys and playing

99
00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:41,359
Speaker 5: five and five, and they don't.

100
00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:42,040
Speaker 2: Play with the NBA ball.

101
00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,160
Speaker 5: They play with the Nike ball, and it was just

102
00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,240
Speaker 5: a completely different feeling, Like the ball is just a

103
00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,919
Speaker 5: lot thicker, you got more grip on it. It's just

104
00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,920
Speaker 5: it was hard for me to play with Honestly, I was.

105
00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,840
Speaker 5: I was missing a lot of shots. I couldn't really

106
00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,520
Speaker 5: dribble it, and I'm like, man, I cannot play with

107
00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,000
Speaker 5: this ball no more. But it's a huge transition, especially

108
00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,960
Speaker 5: because that ball, Like when I was growing up, I

109
00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,799
Speaker 5: always played with Wilson Evolution, kind of like Hosco Ball's

110
00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,640
Speaker 5: growing up, and then when the NBA came, it was

111
00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:07,359
Speaker 5: it was different to me.

112
00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,960
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I can't really grip the ball.

113
00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:10,960
Speaker 5: Then I got used to it when I started working

114
00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,320
Speaker 5: on more and then you realize when the ball get wet,

115
00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,000
Speaker 5: you can you got more grip, and the more you

116
00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,360
Speaker 5: play with it the better. The better it is because

117
00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:19,840
Speaker 5: no one, no one likes to play with a new

118
00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,640
Speaker 5: NBA ball. So but it's it's just a it's a

119
00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,120
Speaker 5: different feeling, a huge feeling.

120
00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:24,760
Speaker 3: Davion.

121
00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,000
Speaker 6: Obviously, you just said this is your second year, so

122
00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,440
Speaker 6: you know half of your life is a king. You've

123
00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:34,320
Speaker 6: you've tasted the playoffs, but when this season started, being

124
00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,760
Speaker 6: just a player on the team, how much did you

125
00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,800
Speaker 6: feel the playoff drought and just how long the community there,

126
00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,640
Speaker 6: which has always been one of the wildest fan bases

127
00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,720
Speaker 6: in the league, just how impatient they were. I mean,

128
00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,279
Speaker 6: I still remember the pictures from summer league when you

129
00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,960
Speaker 6: know they were running and running around outside saying we're

130
00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,920
Speaker 6: gonna we're gonna go five hundred, and they were, you know,

131
00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,640
Speaker 6: they were so pumped about some summer league success. As

132
00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,680
Speaker 6: a player on the team, what did that feel like

133
00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:02,760
Speaker 6: when the season.

134
00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,800
Speaker 2: Started, Yeah, I think that, Uh.

135
00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,280
Speaker 5: I think the biggest thing Mike Brown did when coming

136
00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,920
Speaker 5: in being a new coach, he kind of addressed it

137
00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,200
Speaker 5: like the elephant in the room that you know, we

138
00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:15,520
Speaker 5: got to make the playoffs. But I think what he

139
00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,800
Speaker 5: did a really good job is trying to look look

140
00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,920
Speaker 5: over that trying to make the championship.

141
00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:21,880
Speaker 2: He always kind of talked about that. He didn't really

142
00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:22,279
Speaker 2: just talk.

143
00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,839
Speaker 5: About the playoffs because it's easy to make mistakes and

144
00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,360
Speaker 5: just and just lose a couple of games or lose

145
00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:28,760
Speaker 5: a couple of games in a row. You don't make

146
00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,000
Speaker 5: the playoffs by a couple of games. So we knew

147
00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,520
Speaker 5: that if we're trying to get to the championship, the

148
00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,279
Speaker 5: playoffs was kind of got kind of kind of going

149
00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,479
Speaker 5: to be in that way. So he kind of just

150
00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:37,760
Speaker 5: looked at it like that, and I feel like the

151
00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,560
Speaker 5: team kind of just roll with it. We thought we

152
00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:42,840
Speaker 5: was good enough to make it to the championship and

153
00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,039
Speaker 5: the playoffs is gonna come, come and go. And I

154
00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,279
Speaker 5: think the fans is it's different from the from the

155
00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,280
Speaker 5: when the fans looking in because they're not really it's

156
00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:51,839
Speaker 5: kind of hard to say that they don't. They're not

157
00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,280
Speaker 5: really there every day with you as far as the team,

158
00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,000
Speaker 5: So we didn't really try to look at the fans like, man,

159
00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:58,520
Speaker 5: we're just gonna make the playoffs. For our fans, We're

160
00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,640
Speaker 5: gonna make it for the organization, for the community, for

161
00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,000
Speaker 5: ourselves because we felt like we were good enough.

162
00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,320
Speaker 4: You think the Mike Brown you bench, Mike brown first

163
00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,000
Speaker 4: year as head coach kind of turned.

164
00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:10,560
Speaker 3: Some things around.

165
00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,600
Speaker 4: When did you notice At what point during the season

166
00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,600
Speaker 4: did you notice that this team was for real? Like

167
00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,040
Speaker 4: you knew, like, Okay, this is gonna be different from

168
00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,040
Speaker 4: what Kings fans had been used to as of late.

169
00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,440
Speaker 5: I think when I first noticed the day he started

170
00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,760
Speaker 5: to yell, not really yell, but he kind of got

171
00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,480
Speaker 5: on more of Fox and sabonas our best players. He

172
00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,920
Speaker 5: helped them more accountable than just like I feel like

173
00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,000
Speaker 5: a lot of coaches look at they're the star players.

174
00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,800
Speaker 2: They can kind of do whatever and they get away

175
00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:41,080
Speaker 2: with it.

176
00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,120
Speaker 5: But another player, someone like me that's not really the

177
00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,400
Speaker 5: start player on the team, but if he does something,

178
00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:47,360
Speaker 5: I'm gonna yell at him.

179
00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,240
Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna yell at Fox. Not That's not

180
00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,200
Speaker 2: how Mike Brown was.

181
00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,160
Speaker 5: He was kind of like he was even harder on

182
00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,160
Speaker 5: them just to make them better because they know they're

183
00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,720
Speaker 5: the leaders on our team, so we're gonna follow them.

184
00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,560
Speaker 5: So I think when he did that, I was like, oh,

185
00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:02,200
Speaker 5: we're going to be a really good team.

186
00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,280
Speaker 4: So was that different from what you've seen and the

187
00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,880
Speaker 4: previous regime? They probably wasn't quick to Yeah.

188
00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:10,920
Speaker 2: I mean I think I didn't really.

189
00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,840
Speaker 5: I didn't really notice it as much because, I mean,

190
00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,360
Speaker 5: my first year I was just kind of trying to

191
00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,000
Speaker 5: just fit in for I was just trying to see

192
00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,600
Speaker 5: what the NBA was going to be like, trying to

193
00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:21,880
Speaker 5: play my best every game, and then the coaching changes

194
00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:23,200
Speaker 5: in the trade, so it was all.

195
00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,280
Speaker 2: Kind of new to me. I was kind of like everywhere.

196
00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,400
Speaker 5: So when I kind of had Mike Brown the official coach,

197
00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,040
Speaker 5: I knew that it was gonna be fine.

198
00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:37,400
Speaker 4: So you're regarded as probably the best on ball defender

199
00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:38,400
Speaker 4: in the league.

200
00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,400
Speaker 3: Did you know you had that skill set coming in

201
00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:42,520
Speaker 3: to the league from day one?

202
00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,319
Speaker 4: Like what did you did you feel like it might

203
00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,040
Speaker 4: have been easy or like, you know, cause some rookies

204
00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,360
Speaker 4: been like, oh damn, you know, it's easier than I thought.

205
00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,640
Speaker 4: Like how was it for you once you started to

206
00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,840
Speaker 4: you know, crush down and guard people defensively.

207
00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,959
Speaker 5: I think I've always been like a defensive type of guy,

208
00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,320
Speaker 5: Like I love that end of the floor. I'm a

209
00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,240
Speaker 5: competitive guy, so I don't want no one to score

210
00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,040
Speaker 5: on me. I don't want them to be easy. Like

211
00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,200
Speaker 5: I always wanted to make it hard for the best players.

212
00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:10,959
Speaker 5: I mean, no matter who's driven the ball, no matter

213
00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,520
Speaker 5: who had the ball in their hands. I always kind

214
00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,679
Speaker 5: of been had that competitive nature. So I wouldn't say

215
00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,520
Speaker 5: it came It didn't come easy, of course, because I

216
00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:19,520
Speaker 5: mean regarding the best players in the world, but I

217
00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,600
Speaker 5: would say it was easier for me because I mean,

218
00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,679
Speaker 5: I kind of love that end of the floor. I

219
00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,400
Speaker 5: enjoy a lot of people don't really enjoy a lot

220
00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,320
Speaker 5: of people just do it because they have to do it,

221
00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,360
Speaker 5: or just just stay on the floor, but I kind

222
00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,440
Speaker 5: of I enjoyed that end of the floor, so I

223
00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,720
Speaker 5: take pride in it, and I study the defensive things

224
00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,439
Speaker 5: from greats like Marcus Smart that Drew Holliday. So I'm

225
00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,679
Speaker 5: kind of looking at the people that made a name

226
00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,800
Speaker 5: for themselves defensively in the league and I can take

227
00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,719
Speaker 5: from them, and it just helped my game out.

228
00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,240
Speaker 6: Before you got drafted, how much did you know about

229
00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,960
Speaker 6: Sacramento And how much had you had you actually ever

230
00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,439
Speaker 6: been there beyond potential draft workouts, Like how much did

231
00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:55,800
Speaker 6: you know about where you were headed.

232
00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,320
Speaker 5: So I got a funny story. A lot of people

233
00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:02,080
Speaker 5: don't even notice I didn't. I didn't do I don't

234
00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:03,680
Speaker 5: know if I can say this, but I just know

235
00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:08,640
Speaker 5: I didn't say it. Say it, but I didn't even

236
00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,160
Speaker 5: do a workout with Sacramento. I didn't talk to Sacramento

237
00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,000
Speaker 5: like I didn't like during the draft process, you got

238
00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,120
Speaker 5: to certain people who you think you're gonna get drafted to.

239
00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,880
Speaker 5: My range was from ten to fourteen, and it was

240
00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,520
Speaker 5: it was teams like the Warriors, was teams like Indiana.

241
00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:23,120
Speaker 2: It was teams like.

242
00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,400
Speaker 5: Washington who I thought I was getting drafted to. The

243
00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,240
Speaker 5: teams I worked out for in New Orleans. I worked

244
00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,680
Speaker 5: out for them, and okay, see, but the teams that

245
00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:31,360
Speaker 5: I worked out for, I thought I was getting drafted.

246
00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:32,920
Speaker 5: I mean because I had really good workouts and things

247
00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,120
Speaker 5: like that. And I never worked out with Sacramento. I

248
00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,319
Speaker 5: never knew anybody in Sacramento. I didn't talk to him.

249
00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,600
Speaker 5: But he just I think my agency had a really

250
00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,439
Speaker 5: good connection with with Monty and kind of Manty know

251
00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,600
Speaker 5: about me, and he kind of wanted to change the

252
00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:47,400
Speaker 5: culture and he felt like I could have done that

253
00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,920
Speaker 5: as far as on the defensive end because Sacramento has

254
00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:51,880
Speaker 5: never been really good defensively, so he thought I could

255
00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,040
Speaker 5: change the culture in that way, and so I never

256
00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:55,720
Speaker 5: really thought to him. So I didn't never think I

257
00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:56,680
Speaker 5: was gonna come to Sacramento.

258
00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,640
Speaker 2: It was never a thought. I never been before.

259
00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,680
Speaker 5: I only been in California one time before I got drafted,

260
00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,000
Speaker 5: and I was just the LA for vacation.

261
00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,520
Speaker 2: So it was I've never been a Sacramento.

262
00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,520
Speaker 6: So when you're when you're when you're at that table

263
00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,160
Speaker 6: in the green room, like how much advanced your agent

264
00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,000
Speaker 6: probably gets a call that says you're going to be

265
00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,560
Speaker 6: a king before we actually hear Adam Silver say it.

266
00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,000
Speaker 6: But how shocked were you when they said, hey, you're

267
00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,480
Speaker 6: about ready to go to Sacramento?

268
00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,560
Speaker 2: So another story? Uh ok, yeah, yeah, another story, go ahead.

269
00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,520
Speaker 5: So sitting there at the table, you kind of you

270
00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,120
Speaker 5: kind of don't really know, but you kind of know

271
00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,760
Speaker 5: because basically, when you get drafted, all the cameras come

272
00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,120
Speaker 5: to you, and you know, okay, my name is next,

273
00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,120
Speaker 5: because it's a lot of cameras come to you or whatever.

274
00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,040
Speaker 2: So after the eighth pick, I forgot who had the

275
00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,320
Speaker 2: eighth pick. A pick was probably, uh.

276
00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,360
Speaker 5: Who went before man, it might have been Franz Wagner.

277
00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,040
Speaker 5: I think might have been Frans Wagner. He was maybe

278
00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,200
Speaker 5: the eighth pick. The ninth pick came, and I mean,

279
00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,880
Speaker 5: I didn't think nothing of it. I'm thinking of a yeah,

280
00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,679
Speaker 5: let me see. I think the eighth pick was Franz

281
00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,360
Speaker 5: Wagner from if You're right, You're right.

282
00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:02,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

283
00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,760
Speaker 5: So it was so the fit came and the Sacramento came,

284
00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,160
Speaker 5: so I didn't think nothing of it.

285
00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:09,760
Speaker 2: I was like, not even paying attention.

286
00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,760
Speaker 5: I'm just looking like just talking to my family, and

287
00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,160
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, I just see all these cameras

288
00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,760
Speaker 5: just coming towards me with the knife pick. The knife

289
00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,280
Speaker 5: pick come and all the cameras coming towards me, facing

290
00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,319
Speaker 5: towards me. I'm me and my agent look because my

291
00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,120
Speaker 5: agent didn't even know either, because he didn't even get

292
00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,760
Speaker 5: the call from Sacramento until like after I got drafted.

293
00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,600
Speaker 5: So my agents was like he was surprised too, because

294
00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,480
Speaker 5: no one really came. It came out of shock. And

295
00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:34,920
Speaker 5: then then my name got I went on Twitter and

296
00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,000
Speaker 5: then they said that yes, Sacramento cames are going with

297
00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,240
Speaker 5: Davion Mitchell, and then that's what my name called.

298
00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,840
Speaker 4: Okay so hold on, take it out because people don't

299
00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,319
Speaker 4: know like how the TV, how it works on TV

300
00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,960
Speaker 4: at the draft, the camera will go up to the player,

301
00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,480
Speaker 4: and that's obviously a sign he already knew. So is

302
00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,280
Speaker 4: there some acting that goes on, like you got to

303
00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:54,720
Speaker 4: really act like you're shocked to hear you man?

304
00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:55,840
Speaker 2: Yeah?

305
00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,920
Speaker 5: I mean I think for me, I was like really

306
00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,200
Speaker 5: shocked because I I think I was Sacramento, So I was.

307
00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,679
Speaker 5: I was probably more shocked than anyone because a lot

308
00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,600
Speaker 5: of people kind of know they get a phone call,

309
00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,000
Speaker 5: but I guess Sacramento want to surprise me too, and

310
00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,040
Speaker 5: they didn't even call me till after the draft, So.

311
00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:14,480
Speaker 2: I was surprised.

312
00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,240
Speaker 6: What number? Did you really think you were gonna go?

313
00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,720
Speaker 5: So the surprise of the draft was actually Josh Giddy

314
00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,480
Speaker 5: because I had a really good workout with okay See,

315
00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,120
Speaker 5: and no one knew Josh Giddy was gonna go to

316
00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,679
Speaker 5: okay See. And I think he went maybe six, maybe

317
00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:30,480
Speaker 5: said yeah, six because the Warriors had seven. So I

318
00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,880
Speaker 5: also had a really good workout with the Warriors, but

319
00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,280
Speaker 5: I knew it wasn't gonna seven because Kaminga And then

320
00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,000
Speaker 5: if I didn't get picked by Sacramento. It was gonna

321
00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:42,560
Speaker 5: be by I think Indiana at thirteen, and then Warriors

322
00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:44,840
Speaker 5: had fourteen, So it was gonna be Indiana for thirteen

323
00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,000
Speaker 5: and then the Warriors at fourteen. It was gonna be

324
00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:48,760
Speaker 5: one of those two. And if I didn't get picked

325
00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:50,439
Speaker 5: by the Warriors, it's gonna be the Wizards. I think

326
00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:51,160
Speaker 5: they had fifteen.

327
00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,240
Speaker 3: Let me see that fifteen.

328
00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:55,560
Speaker 2: You got a good memory.

329
00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,000
Speaker 4: So for those that don't know, like, it's very unus

330
00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,240
Speaker 4: usual to get drafted by a team that you didn't

331
00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,520
Speaker 4: work out for. So that's very unusual. I don't think

332
00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,600
Speaker 4: you ever, I don't think that story is ever told.

333
00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:09,440
Speaker 2: It's probably yeah, I shouldn't have told it.

334
00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:14,319
Speaker 4: But the number nine, the number nine pick, it was

335
00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,240
Speaker 4: a lottery pick. It all worked out. So you get

336
00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,280
Speaker 4: to you get to Sacramento. Is this your first time

337
00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,040
Speaker 4: ever being out here and set?

338
00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,720
Speaker 3: So what was you? Give me?

339
00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,240
Speaker 4: Give me your first thoughts, your thoughts of being here?

340
00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,360
Speaker 4: Probably two weeks.

341
00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,560
Speaker 5: I mean the first two weeks, Like I think for me,

342
00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,640
Speaker 5: I was just always trying to be at the gym,

343
00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,000
Speaker 5: and then I didn't stay that far away. I stayed

344
00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,560
Speaker 5: in the toment, So I kind of stayed close to

345
00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:39,480
Speaker 5: the gym and the airport, so it was kind of

346
00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,880
Speaker 5: convenient for me when we left, I will always get

347
00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,480
Speaker 5: to the airport, probably the first because I was the closest.

348
00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,960
Speaker 5: But it was cool, Like I enjoyed the Sacramento. I

349
00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,680
Speaker 5: enjoyed the city, especially the people who are cool. I

350
00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,240
Speaker 5: think they got good food. It's just I enjoy it.

351
00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:55,840
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't really do much anyways, but go

352
00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:57,640
Speaker 5: to the gym, work, have my hose, playing the game,

353
00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:58,840
Speaker 5: so it was cool to me.

354
00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:03,000
Speaker 4: So again, we're talking with Davion Mitchell, the Sacramento Kings

355
00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,000
Speaker 4: here live at Charlene's Beauty Supply.

356
00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,400
Speaker 3: For those who are checking this out on the audio.

357
00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,280
Speaker 4: Version, please if you're in the sacrament area, please come

358
00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,680
Speaker 4: out check out my wife's shop.

359
00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,560
Speaker 3: She's doing unbelievable things out here.

360
00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,800
Speaker 4: When again, shout out Davion Mitchell for coming out here

361
00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:18,680
Speaker 4: and doing this, because we all know he can be

362
00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,600
Speaker 4: in the gym right now. I remember I did a

363
00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,360
Speaker 4: You probably don't remember this. I want to say I

364
00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,600
Speaker 4: probably didn't, but I did what I wrote one of

365
00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,160
Speaker 4: your first NBA stories when you got draft. You probably

366
00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,840
Speaker 4: don't remember this, but I did a story and Bobby

367
00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,160
Speaker 4: Jackson was working with you, was right when you got drafted,

368
00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,760
Speaker 4: and I said, uh, your agent at the time told

369
00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,600
Speaker 4: me like, man, you need to look at him like

370
00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:42,280
Speaker 4: he's a gym rat.

371
00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,200
Speaker 3: He's a gym rat. I'm like, all right, so let

372
00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:45,400
Speaker 3: me see if there's a story there.

373
00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,320
Speaker 4: So I go and Bobby Jackson, who was a summer

374
00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,920
Speaker 4: league coach at the time, and I'm like, Bobby, what

375
00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,280
Speaker 4: is it about Devion? Like I'm trying to write a story.

376
00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,200
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get an interested angle. What is it about?

377
00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,320
Speaker 4: Shout out to Bobby. He just took an assistant job

378
00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,800
Speaker 4: with the Philadelphia seventy six ers, and he's said, dude,

379
00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:02,160
Speaker 4: he won't.

380
00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,000
Speaker 3: Leave the gym, Like we got to force him to

381
00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:04,640
Speaker 3: stay out the gym.

382
00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,600
Speaker 4: He comes in there early morning, comes back in the afternoon,

383
00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,400
Speaker 4: then comes back in the evening.

384
00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,080
Speaker 3: And so I'm like, huh, okay, there you go.

385
00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,400
Speaker 4: What was like, is that just natural or do you

386
00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,840
Speaker 4: feel like you really had to make a great first impression?

387
00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:19,720
Speaker 7: Nah?

388
00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,200
Speaker 5: I think in college I was like that, you know,

389
00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,400
Speaker 5: in colleges you can do that because you don't play

390
00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:25,200
Speaker 5: that many games.

391
00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:27,720
Speaker 2: You only play like twenty something games.

392
00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,520
Speaker 5: And then it's like a game like maybe one time

393
00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,280
Speaker 5: a week, so it ain't really putting stress in your body.

394
00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:34,800
Speaker 2: So I didn't realize that.

395
00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:36,840
Speaker 5: I mean, coming to the league, I'm thinking I should

396
00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:38,760
Speaker 5: be doing the same thing that got me here.

397
00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,360
Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on. So what'd you What did that

398
00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:42,640
Speaker 3: change when you realize you got to.

399
00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:46,720
Speaker 5: You starting like the game twenty is like I'm exhausted.

400
00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,080
Speaker 5: So but nah, Bobby, I mean Bobby helped me out

401
00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:51,480
Speaker 5: a lot. He kind of told me, like, man, you

402
00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,880
Speaker 5: play eighty two games now, like you gotta you gotta

403
00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,640
Speaker 5: make sure you're taking care of your body more than

404
00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,880
Speaker 5: just being in the gym, because I mean, you can

405
00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,000
Speaker 5: do all the workouts you you won't, but if you

406
00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,840
Speaker 5: if your body tired for the game, then it ain't

407
00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,719
Speaker 5: gonna mean nothing. So I kind of took his advice

408
00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:06,840
Speaker 5: and I kind of got a better schedule now, like

409
00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,399
Speaker 5: I don't really go too crazy, Like I know that

410
00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,520
Speaker 5: I got a season to play. I know I'm playing

411
00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,159
Speaker 5: heavy minute some night, so I know I got to

412
00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,880
Speaker 5: have my legs, but I also got to be be ready,

413
00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:17,840
Speaker 5: so I try to try to work between.

414
00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:18,960
Speaker 3: Understand I was making sure.

415
00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, he definitely can't be going doing three

416
00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,720
Speaker 4: days now, no playing an eighty two game season.

417
00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,200
Speaker 3: So I brought up that. I brought this up.

418
00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:32,480
Speaker 4: Usually where a high profile NBA player changes agency, something

419
00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:33,920
Speaker 4: is up, something's going on.

420
00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,919
Speaker 3: You changed representation recently, Why is that?

421
00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,800
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a lot of reasons. I think

422
00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:40,840
Speaker 2: the main reason was.

423
00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,000
Speaker 5: I mean I think that the agency I was with

424
00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,040
Speaker 5: was kind of East coast, so I didn't really get

425
00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,639
Speaker 5: to see him as much. They was only in New

426
00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,600
Speaker 5: York and I only can see me in Florida, so I.

427
00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:51,960
Speaker 2: Didn't really get to see him as much. I didn't

428
00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:52,720
Speaker 2: really get to connect.

429
00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:54,800
Speaker 5: And I like to talk to people and I like

430
00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,160
Speaker 5: to see what their mindset is because at the time,

431
00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,720
Speaker 5: it was like the playoffs was coming, so sometimes my

432
00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:01,960
Speaker 5: minute will be here. It would kind of be just everywhere,

433
00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000
Speaker 5: And I wanted you to know that the reason but

434
00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,119
Speaker 5: they wasn't there because there was East Coast sometimes and

435
00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:07,800
Speaker 5: they got their players and they got their family, so

436
00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:09,960
Speaker 5: I respect that, but it was just like I needed

437
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,119
Speaker 5: someone to be closer to the West coast side so

438
00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,239
Speaker 5: I can see them, he can come talk to me,

439
00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,320
Speaker 5: and it's like a short flight an hour flight from

440
00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,159
Speaker 5: LA and not like a four hour flight from New

441
00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:20,359
Speaker 5: York or things like that. So that was like the

442
00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:21,000
Speaker 5: biggest reason.

443
00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,960
Speaker 3: Okay, so it's safe to say you're not gearing up

444
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:23,800
Speaker 3: to ask for trade.

445
00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,400
Speaker 2: Nah, hope not hope. It ain't on me though.

446
00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:35,040
Speaker 4: So they like when you had the first year, you

447
00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,760
Speaker 4: had your signs, and the second year you kind of

448
00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,080
Speaker 4: had to find your way a little bit, and towards

449
00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,879
Speaker 4: the playoffs it became a bigger part of rotate. I

450
00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,320
Speaker 4: remember when I was doing sidelines for T and T

451
00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:48,640
Speaker 4: for you guys' playoff games, and I talked to coach

452
00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,320
Speaker 4: Brown before the game and he said, man, I actually

453
00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,480
Speaker 4: have to start like drawing up a few plays for

454
00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,040
Speaker 4: Deve Beyond because he's playing good defensive. I want to

455
00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,720
Speaker 4: keep them engaged. Tell me about this second year, would

456
00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,920
Speaker 4: you would you can some people say a sophomore slump

457
00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,879
Speaker 4: or something like that. How would you consider just the

458
00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,560
Speaker 4: second year and how you're able to evolve or progress.

459
00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,399
Speaker 5: I just think our whole teams just got better. We

460
00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,960
Speaker 5: got different pieces. I think the first year our roster

461
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:17,919
Speaker 5: was kind of like unbalanced a little bit. We had

462
00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,439
Speaker 5: a lot of guards and then bigs and not that

463
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,960
Speaker 5: many wings. So I think this year, we had a

464
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,240
Speaker 5: balanced roster with Adam Kevin, Adam Aleak than Trey playing

465
00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,359
Speaker 5: like it just made it. It made it like a

466
00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,879
Speaker 5: balanced roster and made our team better and made everything

467
00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,160
Speaker 5: much better. So I knew I had to sacrifice sometimes

468
00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,840
Speaker 5: the minutes because I mean Fox was playing at a

469
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,520
Speaker 5: high level, and you know, the first year, Fox end

470
00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,520
Speaker 5: up getting hurt. So I played a lot of minutes

471
00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,359
Speaker 5: towards the end of the year. So, I mean, he

472
00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,080
Speaker 5: was playing at a high level, playing great basketball for us.

473
00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:44,960
Speaker 2: He was winning this game.

474
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,080
Speaker 5: So I mean it's kind of it's kind of hard

475
00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:48,920
Speaker 5: to as a competitor, it's kind of hard to look

476
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,200
Speaker 5: at it, like, man, you want to play a lot,

477
00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,199
Speaker 5: but as a teammates, like you want to cheer your

478
00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,320
Speaker 5: teammates on. So I mean, I think it was good

479
00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:55,760
Speaker 5: for him. I learned a lot from Fox. I mean,

480
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,560
Speaker 5: seeing his game evolved, being with a better team, being

481
00:19:58,560 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 5: a better leader.

482
00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,320
Speaker 2: It just helped me out a lot.

483
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,879
Speaker 4: Now, that's that's a unique perspective from a young player.

484
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,440
Speaker 4: Most wouldn't have that perspective. It would be I guess

485
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,159
Speaker 4: they would probably label with a frustrating year. Where did

486
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,880
Speaker 4: the frust I know you you know you're frustrated at

487
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,720
Speaker 4: some certain points during the season, and where did it

488
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:18,200
Speaker 4: come from?

489
00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:19,920
Speaker 3: Like where did that stem from?

490
00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 2: Where did the when life?

491
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,520
Speaker 3: And like where was where was the frustration was it with?

492
00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,879
Speaker 4: I don't know, just a lack of not consistent playing

493
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,760
Speaker 4: time or minute so what whatever?

494
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,360
Speaker 5: Like, I mean, I think that, uh, the frustration came

495
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,639
Speaker 5: from putting more frustration on myself, is just making their

496
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,840
Speaker 5: missing shots, kind of just putting more pressure on myself

497
00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,119
Speaker 5: than I didn't have to. I mean, because it's a

498
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 5: make or mislead. Either gonna make the shot or miss it.

499
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,399
Speaker 5: You got to kind of live with the results regardless

500
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,320
Speaker 5: of I mean, you just got to have confidence shooting

501
00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,120
Speaker 5: the ball. So I think this year, I mean even

502
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:53,879
Speaker 5: next year going into I'm just kind of trying to

503
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,320
Speaker 5: work on just having a uh.

504
00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:57,200
Speaker 2: What what's the word?

505
00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 5: Uh, what's the word I'm trying to say, Well, honestly,

506
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,800
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to just forget the shot I take,

507
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 5: no matter if I miss or make it, just kind

508
00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,200
Speaker 5: of just forget it. Don't don't have like, no, don't

509
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,360
Speaker 5: be mad about it if you miss left with your airball,

510
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 5: don't don't just take one shot at the time.

511
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,800
Speaker 4: So let me say this real quick. Let's start and

512
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,440
Speaker 4: ask the next question. I was talking with Jonathan Comedia

513
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,640
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago Jannon Miami during the NBA Finals,

514
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 4: and he would just tell me about like how most

515
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:28,199
Speaker 4: top rookies lottery picks, primarily they get drafted to losing

516
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:29,440
Speaker 4: teams and.

517
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,680
Speaker 3: They're able to play and make mistakes.

518
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,639
Speaker 4: And Johnathan community obviously no plays for the Warriors, and

519
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 4: he was talking about how hard it is to go

520
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 4: in there, make a mistake, get a turnover, and then

521
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 4: get pulled really quick, and they don't have a chance

522
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 4: to grow that confidence like their other rookie piers. And

523
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 4: that's something that I think that's something similar to you,

524
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 4: Like you're you're a defensive specialist, but you know you

525
00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 4: probably got to hit shots to stay in the game,

526
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 4: to get extended minutes. If you're missing that shot, and

527
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 4: it's like damn, like that is that something for sure?

528
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 2: That's like the biggest thing.

529
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,679
Speaker 5: When our team got better, I knew that and I

530
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 5: start to see the minutes cut. I kind of knew that, Okay,

531
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 5: we're becoming a really good team. I mean because like

532
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:15,880
Speaker 5: even my first year it was kind of different where

533
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 5: I can make a mistake because we wasn't really as

534
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 5: good the first year. So I can make a mistake

535
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 5: and I still be in the game where I can

536
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 5: miss a couple of shots or things like that.

537
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,359
Speaker 2: And I mean, but also I think you learned from that.

538
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 5: I mean, a lot of people would say, like guys,

539
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 5: like a prime example, I think Jalen Green is a

540
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 5: top guard in that league, and it's easy to play

541
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 5: for the Rockets because they're kind of never really playing

542
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:35,679
Speaker 5: for anything.

543
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 2: They but that dude's a really good player.

544
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 5: Like if he played on a good team, I think

545
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,399
Speaker 5: he would kind of be doing as much as the

546
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 5: same thing, but it just wouldn't show as effective. He

547
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 5: probably wouldn't scored thirty every night, he'd probably score nineteen twenty.

548
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 5: But he'll be better games, Like he'll win games. So

549
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,439
Speaker 5: I feel like teams like that it's easier to play for.

550
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 5: Like prime example, my rookie year, when Fiz got out,

551
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 5: when we wasn't playing for the playoffs, we knew we

552
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 5: wasn't going to make the playoffs. I was I was

553
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 5: putting them crazy numbers because it was like, I can

554
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 5: make a mistake and still be in I got the

555
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 5: confidence to take this shot right here, and I still

556
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 5: be in the game. I'm not really worried about somebody

557
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 5: coming behind me or taking me out because we're not

558
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 5: really playing for nothing, Like we know we're not making

559
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 5: the playoffs. So it made it made it a lot

560
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 5: easier after my rookie year. But I learned a lot.

561
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 5: I mean, I learned how to kind of run the team. Still,

562
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 5: I try to play the right way every time I play.

563
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 5: I don't try to just because I can be on

564
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 5: the four for thirty minutes, I'm about to not take

565
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 5: crazy shots. I'm still going to play the right way,

566
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,679
Speaker 5: And I think that it could just be different for

567
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 5: different people.

568
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 6: So, you guys had such an amazing season. Nobody on

569
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 6: Earth thought the Kings were going to finish third in

570
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 6: the West. You're playing the defending champs in the first round.

571
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,880
Speaker 6: You had your chances in that series, and then when

572
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 6: it suddenly ends. How hard is it to watch the

573
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,479
Speaker 6: rest of the playoffs. Were you able to watch it

574
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 6: and dial in or did you just I'm sure the

575
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 6: ending came is kind of a sudden shock to you guys.

576
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 5: I would say, I mean, after the game, it was hard,

577
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 5: but the next day it's like you kind of gotta

578
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,880
Speaker 5: get over. I mean, you can't really do anything about it.

579
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: For me, it wasn't hard. I went to plenty of

580
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 2: playoff games.

581
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 5: I travel to New York to watch them play Miami,

582
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 5: I went to LA to watch them play Like it

583
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,919
Speaker 5: was because I love the game of basketball, like no

584
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 5: matter what, like, I'm still gonna watch the game, I'm

585
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 5: gonna be around it. So of course, after that first

586
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 5: night when you think you could have won in Game seven,

587
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 5: where if you could have done things differently or something

588
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 5: could have happened, we could have won the game, we

589
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 5: still be playing. But we know like the next year

590
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 5: we're gonna be even better. It's just the next year coming.

591
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 5: So I wasn't really as mad. I don't think really

592
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 5: no one as mad as after that first night.

593
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, it wasn't really hard for me to I

594
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 2: still watch basketball.

595
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 6: To go to a playoff game, you're an NBA player,

596
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 6: But to go to a playoff game as a fan,

597
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 6: what are you looking for and what is what do

598
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 6: you digest? Because I'm sure that too, it's gotta be

599
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 6: a little weird to be sitting in a very small

600
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 6: chair trying to watch.

601
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 5: Uh, I think when I went to the next game,

602
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 5: I would kind of just kind of paying attention to

603
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 5: Jalen Brunson a lot, because I mean, he's a really

604
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 5: he kind of up his game after after he left Dallas.

605
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 5: He like he went to another level. I mean, he's

606
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 5: a really good friend of mine. So we TechEd after

607
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 5: after the series. We used to talk all the time,

608
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 5: and after we play each other, we talked. So he's

609
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 5: just a guy that I look at as far as

610
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 5: like the pace of the offense, he's he's running a team,

611
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 5: that type of stuff.

612
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 2: Just learn those things.

613
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 5: But I kind of I'm also a look at as

614
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 5: a fan too, like man, like how you missed that shot?

615
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 5: Like and I get it, how fans how how fans

616
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 5: look at the game, like, man, how you miss that shot?

617
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 5: When I realized it. When I'm sitting there as a

618
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 5: as a fan but also as a basketball player, I'm

619
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 5: just looking at the different the different things a point

620
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 5: guard can do to run a team or to be

621
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 5: successful to win a game.

622
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 6: I don't know if Chris told you, but I'm actually

623
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 6: based in Dallas, So you just brought up one of

624
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,159
Speaker 6: my favorite subjects in Jalen Hrunts and since you know

625
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 6: his game so well, can you explain to he gets

626
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 6: better every year he's I mean he's done it now,

627
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 6: five years in a row. He's exceeded all expectations. As

628
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 6: someone who knows him well, how does he pull that off?

629
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 6: How does he find another year to go to? Year

630
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 6: after year after year?

631
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 3: I didn't know you and Jalen Brust good for us?

632
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 2: Yea, I didn't know that.

633
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 3: Okay, good nugget star.

634
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 2: I think that, uh.

635
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 5: I think Jayalen Brunston always had He was always a

636
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 5: really good player to me. I mean even in Dallas.

637
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 5: It's just he wasn't you. It's kind of hard when

638
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 5: you don't get the opportunity. I mean he had an opportunity,

639
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 5: but you also got a guy like who Luca has

640
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 5: the ball in his hands a lot, and Jaylaen Brunt

641
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 5: had always been a guy with the ball in the

642
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 5: hands a lot, making plays for others, making plays for himself,

643
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 5: posting up, just getting in the paint, like even at

644
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 5: Villanova the four years the year he was a he

645
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 5: was a league guard, he had the ball in his

646
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 5: hands a lot. So I think the more comfortable he got,

647
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 5: the more you see the real Jayalen Brunston when he

648
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 5: was at Villanova, because he's always was good. I don't

649
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 5: think he did anything better. I think he's just got

650
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 5: more comfortable. He just in a situation where now he

651
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 5: got the ball, he's running a team like he used

652
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 5: to be, So now he's getting more and more comfortable.

653
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 5: I think the more more uncomfortable he gets, he's gonna

654
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 5: keep getting even better. I mean, because he's gonna play,

655
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 5: he's gonna start manipulating the game.

656
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 2: He's gonna start picking people.

657
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 5: Apart as far as the knowledge you have of the game,

658
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 5: I mean, because all the reps he gets and and

659
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 5: things like that. I mean, and I think the best

660
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 5: thing about Jayalen Brunson, I think he's the hardest player

661
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 5: to guard to me, because he us his body a

662
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 5: lot and he changes speeds a lot. So it's kind

663
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 5: of hard to just kind of hard to just guard

664
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 5: him just straight up because he changes speed so much

665
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 5: and you gotta kind of always stay in front of him.

666
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 5: Because he got a good mid range game, he got

667
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 5: a good post game, he got he got it all.

668
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 5: So I think that he's one of the toughest guys.

669
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 2: In the lead for me.

670
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you said that.

671
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you're also on record of saying the toughest

672
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 4: guard you had to defend in the league is Stephan Kurr.

673
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 3: That still holds true.

674
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 5: I mean it's a couple of I mean, we're playing

675
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 5: a really good lead, so it's yeah, he's up there,

676
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 5: give me the couple go uh say Shay from Okay,

677
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 5: see Alexander, he's definitely the toughest.

678
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 3: He's the toughest.

679
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the toughest. Yeah, he's definitely.

680
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 3: A break down his game, definitely the toughest.

681
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think. I mean, he got the ball in

682
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 5: the hands a lot. I mean he can handle the ball.

683
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 5: You know, I'm an on ball de Finlis. You got

684
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 5: the ball in his hands a lot. He got a

685
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 5: really good mid range game. He has a really good

686
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 5: change of pace, and he's maybe six five sixty six,

687
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 5: so my I can't really do as much when he

688
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 5: gets to.

689
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 2: His spots and just hope he missed.

690
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 5: I mean, because he got so many inches over me,

691
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 5: so I kind of got to stay connected to him

692
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 5: the whole time. But he changed his speed so well

693
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 5: it's kind of hard to do that. And he uses

694
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 5: a body a lot, and he gets to the free

695
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 5: throw line, so it makes it tough. And he's starting

696
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 5: to hit three, so he's kind of trying to put

697
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 5: everything together. So now it's gonna be even tougher. And

698
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 5: I think next is uh I would say for me,

699
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 5: I would say next is I would say Jalen Brunson

700
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 5: because I'm an on ball defender, like y'all said, so

701
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 5: it's like on all he's he's definitely one of the

702
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 5: top guards. Like I said, he changed speeds well and

703
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 5: things like that. But I think where I'm really not

704
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 5: as good as off ball, and I think that Stephen

705
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 5: Curry comes into play and the way the team plays,

706
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 5: it's like he always playing off the ball. Of course

707
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 5: he's got the ball in his hands sometimes, but they

708
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 5: use a lot of throwing the ball. I mean throwing

709
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 5: it him come, comeing and get it. They're always looking

710
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 5: for him and they and I think they don't really

711
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 5: set the greatest screens and they don't get called for it.

712
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 5: But you know say that, but I mean he gets

713
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 5: opened a lot and then I mean he knocks it down.

714
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 2: You can't really leave no space for him, and if

715
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 2: you do it, it's going there.

716
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know what you're saying there, So that's g

717
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 4: a Bron said, Steph top top three right there, We're

718
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 4: gonna We're gonna open it up for fans to ask

719
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 4: ask question. I got a few neighbors over there as

720
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 4: big Kings fans as well. They want to ask a question.

721
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 4: But let me let's let's stay on. Similar to Steph

722
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 4: the Warriors, you guys win the first two games of

723
00:29:55,640 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 4: that series. Now that you're removed from it, what happened?

724
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 4: So if somebody asked you, like, how did you lose

725
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 4: that series? What do you say? What do you say

726
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 4: happened after game two that resulted in you guys not

727
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 4: being able to advance?

728
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 2: Oh?

729
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 5: I would say nothing, really, I mean something happened obviously,

730
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 5: I think. I mean, Steve Kerr is a really good coach,

731
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 5: and he made adjustments. He made it where he kind

732
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 5: of messed up our rotations a little bit.

733
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: I think we kind of.

734
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,719
Speaker 5: Like even even like during Game three, he kind of

735
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 5: like he missed their rotations a little bit, kind of

736
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 5: didn't really want me on stuff a little bit, and

737
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 5: you can see it, and it kind of took kind

738
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 5: of took me out of game, kind of took my

739
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 5: rhythm out the game because I go in a certain

740
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 5: time and they kind of wanted me to mess up

741
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 5: with stuff a little bit. So when Steve Kerr took

742
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 5: him out and then put him right back in when

743
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 5: it's not my time to get in. So he's like

744
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 5: a really good coach man. He kind of played a

745
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 5: lot of mind games, and it kind of messed my

746
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 5: rhythm up. And I think Game three I didn't really

747
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 5: have a good game because my rhythm was a little

748
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 5: bit off because I wasn't in the same amount of minutes.

749
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 5: I wasn't in and around the same burst I always play.

750
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 5: So they just made adjustments. I mean, also, that's just

751
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 5: a really good team and he'd been through it like

752
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 5: he'd been through he won a championship the year before,

753
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 5: so he had to make adjustments on the fly and

754
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 5: game and series and this series from one, it was

755
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 5: just like he's used to it. So I think, yeah,

756
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 5: that's a good point.

757
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 4: I didn't think about that. So they changed the lineup.

758
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 4: What was it Game three or Game four?

759
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe game three because it was going to Theay

760
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 5: Place and it was game three.

761
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, they needed to win.

762
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so you would like, as a competitor, you

763
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 4: would like for on your end, you would like to

764
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 4: you're playing time to mirror.

765
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: A little staff. Yeah, I mean I knew it was

766
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: going to be able to.

767
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it kept you. I get that, and so

768
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 3: I say, that's that's I didn't think about that.

769
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 2: That's a good point.

770
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 5: I think people don't realize that this game is like

771
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 5: a rhythm. Like you got to have rhythm to play

772
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 5: this game. To really be really good at it, you

773
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 5: got to have a rhythm. And when fans, the way

774
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 5: fans look at it is like, yeah, you gotta make

775
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 5: this shot.

776
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 2: You got to make this shot.

777
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 5: Like but just like if there's no rhythm, it's kind

778
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 5: of hard to play like that for anyone. I would

779
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 5: think that someone that comes off the bench and sometimes

780
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 5: like we're in game three when we only get to

781
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 5: play like a minute and a half because of Steph

782
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 5: curries out and then he comes back in and it's like, oh,

783
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 5: I don't have no rhythm. Now I'm back on the

784
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 5: bench where I started because I don't start, so I'm

785
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 5: on the bench again. Now I got warm. Now I

786
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 5: gotta come back on the bench. And it's like people

787
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 5: don't realize it. Man, it's a lot of a lot

788
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 5: of insight to it.

789
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 4: So the next question that pertains to that series, was

790
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 4: it really necessary for he Fort to get kicked off

791
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 4: the game?

792
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know anything about that.

793
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 5: I don't think no one on our team was really

794
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 5: like paying its it after the game when they said something,

795
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 5: but like, I didn't really.

796
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 2: That was.

797
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 4: That's a legend, man, he reped Sacramento Toosary.

798
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 6: What would you say is if you could only pick

799
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 6: one thing next season, what do you want to do

800
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 6: better than you did this season?

801
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 2: Are you talking about as far as the team wise

802
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 2: you you individually?

803
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 5: Oh, I think just shooting the ball better, getting more

804
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 5: comfortable with shooting the ball. I think that's just the

805
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 5: main thing.

806
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: I think. If if I can shoot the ball with confidence.

807
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 5: And and and hit most of them, then I mean

808
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 5: I'll be on the floor more and everything just work out.

809
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 6: And then I guess I'm probably gonna ask the question

810
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 6: that everybody in Charlene's Beauty supply wants to know. What

811
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 6: are the Kings going to do for an encore? How

812
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 6: do you guys prove that it wasn't a one hit

813
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 6: wonder situation?

814
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 5: I mean, I think that if everyone gets better individually,

815
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 5: they're gonna make their team better.

816
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: That's that's always kind of been my thought process.

817
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 5: If if everyone's getting better individually, then and they bring

818
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 5: it to the team and as far as the real aspect,

819
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 5: then we're going to be a better team. But I

820
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 5: don't think the one hit wonder would be a thing

821
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 5: because I mean, everyone.

822
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: Our team works hard.

823
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 5: I think the Arran's working extremely hard this offseason so

824
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 5: he can kind of have the same team or even

825
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 5: a better season. And he's our leader on our team,

826
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 5: so that's gonna make us a lot better as a team.

827
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 5: Don't mind is working hard as ever, so he's gonna

828
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 5: get better and he's gonna make our team better. Me

829
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 5: the league, all the guys that play man like, all

830
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 5: the guys is on the team that is going to contribute,

831
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 5: and everyone on the team is getting better. So I

832
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 5: think that if we all come together and with our

833
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 5: individual summers, then I think that we're gonna be better

834
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 5: as a team.

835
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 4: So let's we're gonna everybody get your questions ready. If

836
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 4: you want a question you want to ask, Deveon, raise

837
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,919
Speaker 4: your hand. I'll get to you. Okay, you'll be first

838
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 4: after this one, Devion, So you've been in the league

839
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 4: for a few years now, You've seen that this is

840
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 4: a business.

841
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 3: You see trades, You see.

842
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 4: How guys are traded and how they oftentimes find out

843
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 4: on social media. You see Chris Paul going over there

844
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 4: to the Golden State Warris and things like that. So

845
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 4: have you been in the league long enough to wonder

846
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 4: if your name will be next, like if you'll see

847
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 4: your name on the ticker for being traded or being moved, Like,

848
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 4: has there been a scare yet from you?

849
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, my rookie year guy. I used to work out

850
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 5: with Rico Hines. He was yes's my guy, Yeah, Philly,

851
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 5: And he would say he would always say, man, like

852
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 5: if Shaquille Shaquille o'nil can get traded, you can get traded.

853
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 5: So that's always been like my thought process, Like, I mean,

854
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 5: any day I can get traded. One of the best

855
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,919
Speaker 5: players that, one of the best big man's ever played

856
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 5: the game could get traded.

857
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 2: Sure, I can get traded, I mean, just like anyone else.

858
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 2: So I always had that good perspective.

859
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 3: So I'm had you come over and take the Michael

860
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 3: as of course, say your.

861
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 2: Name and the other thing.

862
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 3: Man, welcome.

863
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 2: My name is Ramsey.

864
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 8: One of the questions I have for you is actually

865
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 8: outside of basketball, are you fan of any other sports

866
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:42,320
Speaker 8: outside of basketball?

867
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 3: And do you have any other favorite teams?

868
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been to a couple of baseball games.

869
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 5: I'm not really a big ball football fan, Like, I

870
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 5: don't really watch football. But I would say, like, I

871
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 5: don't have any favorite teams to say, but I mean

872
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 5: I've been.

873
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 2: To a couple of games. Okay, yeah, cause I mean

874
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 2: I saw you a couple of times. I know you're

875
00:35:58,640 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 2: from Georgia.

876
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,280
Speaker 5: That's how you like wearing a brave shirt and everything,

877
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 5: if you were a Falcons fan or not. Myself, I

878
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 5: don't really I don't really watch football like that.

879
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 3: Most people think your first sport was football.

880
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get get that. A lie get that.

881
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 5: I never played football, though I played in middle school.

882
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 5: Then I stopped after middle school. I was like, it's

883
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 5: not me.

884
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 2: What's what?

885
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 3: What's what about football? Is not?

886
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 2: To to be honest, to be a little bit cocky.

887
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 2: I think it was a little too easy. No, I

888
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 2: think that football man.

889
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,439
Speaker 5: I just I really don't like being outside as much,

890
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 5: and you've got to be outside no matter if it's

891
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 5: hot or cold.

892
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 2: I'd rather just be in the building playing a sport.

893
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 4: So when you look at free agency, I think ways

894
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 4: to get better. You hear all types of names that's

895
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 4: being floated on what the Kings are going to do.

896
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 4: Obviously they're gonna gets done with an extension. You're hearing

897
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 4: Kyle Kuzman name float floating around. Do you listen to rumors?

898
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 4: Do you listen to things? Are you at the point

899
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 4: where you probably are even recruiting guys? Does it? Has

900
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 4: it got there yet? You just laid back and see

901
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 4: what happens.

902
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think right now my point that

903
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 5: the point of my career. I think I'll just try

904
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 5: to look at it like I'm gonna get better. Regardless,

905
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 5: I try not to look at the aspect. I feel like,

906
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 5: whoever's get on the team, I mean, they're gonna they're

907
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 5: gonna be good for us. We got a really good

908
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 5: coaching staff, We've got a really good system around it.

909
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 5: Someone's not gonna come onto our team and just be

910
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 5: like a completely different person. They're gonna gel in with

911
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 5: the team. So I think we're gonna be fine.

912
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 3: Questions, come on, come on up, you got a question,

913
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 3: Get on the mic. I got I got this. This

914
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 3: is my neighbor right here. This is my neighbor right here.

915
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 2: Give it.

916
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 9: If you give your name.

917
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 7: And everything, my name. My name is Victor humanis uh question?

918
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 7: You got hammered in the head a lot. And I

919
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 7: know the NBA doesn't about helmets. So is this the

920
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 7: reason why you're out.

921
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 3: Your hair number one?

922
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 2: Definitely, definitely not the reason.

923
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 5: I kind of just during the summertime, I try to

924
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 5: if I ain't going nowhere, I just use it.

925
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 10: Don't get it done, I just let it breathe real know,

926
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 10: you did you get hit a lot. I mean not

927
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 10: as much as the bonus, but you did get hit

928
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 10: a lot. And you're tough, right Yeah. So my big

929
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 10: question for you is, like somebody's had put that in you, right?

930
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 10: How to play that defense? Who's that person? That's a

931
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 10: great question.

932
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 5: I have three uncles that, uh that kind of put

933
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 5: the ball in my hands, that played the game. Didn't

934
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 5: make it the NBA, but they played in college and

935
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 5: things like that, and they were all competitive, and I

936
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 5: think that's.

937
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 2: That's the way what you mean. Right.

938
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I said, I got three uncles and they

939
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 5: play college ball, and I'm close with them and I

940
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 5: think they all they all been competitive, and I think

941
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 5: that's where I got it from seeing them playing his

942
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 5: people at the gym, playing hard things like that. I

943
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 5: think that's where I just kind of got it from.

944
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 5: Really that's a fan. I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you.

945
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 4: Give I shout out to Seaun Cunningham out here at

946
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 4: ABC ten out here covering this event.

947
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 11: Real quick shout out to the same person, Steph. I

948
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 11: see my man in the shop getting the wig down

949
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 11: all the time, man, so we know where to go. H.

950
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 11: My question is, actually I got lucky. I was on

951
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 11: the AMP app with Roz and Coach Brown asking the

952
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 11: same question triple threat, basketball, draw, pass shoot, but just

953
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 11: in general, man, because I've been watching since Baylor I love.

954
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 2: I'm a Kings fan, right or die?

955
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 11: What are your three things that you can hand your

956
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 11: hat on though you personally though, how people want to

957
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 11: know you by, how you move, how you knew because.

958
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 2: I laid back, quiet dog, and but give me three things.

959
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 11: Give me your trouble threat right now to everybody who's

960
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 11: the sacrament to really know who Daveyon is.

961
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 2: I think I.

962
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 5: Think the main two is I'm more laid back for sure,

963
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 5: anybody will tell you, I'm like probably the most laid

964
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 5: back person you ever meet, and other than Keik is

965
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 5: definitely laid back, but laid back and I think hardworking

966
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 5: and uh it'sanolla.

967
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 2: One more word I would say.

968
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 5: I would just say, like, my biggest thing is I

969
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 5: would like to inspire people, especially from where I'm from.

970
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 5: I'm from a small city or only a couple of

971
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 5: people really made it out. I mean, only two people

972
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 5: made it to the NBA in my city. A couple

973
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 5: people want to receive so it's tough. So just to

974
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 5: just to inspire the people, especially I mean little kids

975
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 5: of course across the world, but just mainly people from

976
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 5: from smaller cities, just to let them know, man like,

977
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 5: no matter how small the city is, no matter how

978
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 5: big the city is, if you work hard, then you

979
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 5: can you can make anything possible. Appreciate men, Yeah, no problem.

980
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 4: Oh oh Lance was uh oh, come come on, come

981
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 4: on up here, come get get the mic.

982
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 12: You know how it is, as you said, you want

983
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 12: to inspire people, and that stuck out with me. Earlier

984
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 12: you was talking about how you never worked out for

985
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 12: the Kings, but they drafted you, and that inspired me

986
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 12: because I haven't worked out for any temps, so I

987
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 12: still got a shot.

988
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 2: People.

989
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 12: This is a question, though, what is what is? Or

990
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 12: is there inspiration behind you wearing a number fifteen?

991
00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 5: After we won the national championship at Baylor in my

992
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 5: city where I'm from, they kind of honored me and

993
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 5: giving me a day, Davion Mitchell Day until April fifteen.

994
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 2: So I kind of just kind of picked that up there.

995
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 5: And fifteen was my high school number my first year,

996
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 5: my freshman year in high school, so I just kind

997
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 5: of just wanted to go with it.

998
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 2: I kind of had to get away from forty five.

999
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 3: It's dope, that was actually my number. Fifteen is my number?

1000
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 3: Why was fifteen my number?

1001
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 13: Here?

1002
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 3: Who is my favorite player?

1003
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:28,919
Speaker 2: Spree? Well?

1004
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 3: Spree Well yeah, okay, you got a joke, sir, We

1005
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,479
Speaker 3: got a joke. Come on up here, man, you get hurt?

1006
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 2: Here you going, man? I'm here a nice bro.

1007
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 14: So my question to you are is I know you

1008
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 14: say you want to work on your jump shot. I'm

1009
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 14: a big basketball fan, playball, I'm a latest fan, but

1010
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 14: I just like basketball in general. So I know you

1011
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 14: say you want to work on your jump shot. You

1012
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 14: guys had a lot of success. I've been in Sacramento

1013
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 14: for a while. What is two things you want to

1014
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 14: achieve as a player, INVIDLEI I know, team success, No,

1015
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 14: just you as an individual.

1016
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 5: I would say individually. I mean I've never been like

1017
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 5: a big accolades guy. I mean, of course it if

1018
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 5: it if it happens, it happens through the work that

1019
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 5: I put in. But I would say accomplishing just uh,

1020
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 5: just being the best player I can be.

1021
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 2: That's definitely one of the things.

1022
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 5: And don't don't really take anything for granted, don't cheat

1023
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 5: the process, no matter how hard times could be. Just

1024
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 5: kind of just kind of my motto. What I live

1025
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 5: for is trust your work. That's that's my brand, That's

1026
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 5: who I am. So kind of just having that just

1027
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 5: if I if I leave my career knowing that I

1028
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 5: worked as worked is hard every single day and never

1029
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 5: achieved the process, that I can live with that.

1030
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 3: Come on.

1031
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 4: Come on, brother, Let the alder through, Let the alder through.

1032
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: Come on.

1033
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 8: Mike Bradley, old school basketball fan from Tacoma. I've been

1034
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 8: here for a while. So what do you do right now?

1035
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 8: Nothing retired?

1036
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 3: What do you do?

1037
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: I give him buckets every day? Give Chris buckets every

1038
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 2: day coach.

1039
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 8: I'm a Sheldon High School here at Sacamelo, so we're

1040
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 8: one of the top teams you know the area. So anyway,

1041
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 8: is there a team that you look at when you

1042
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 8: go around the league and say, damn, if I was

1043
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 8: on that team, we'd be we'd be giving giving buckets.

1044
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 8: I know, we want you don't have to give out

1045
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 8: a team, but this like teams that She's like, man,

1046
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 8: you know, if I was with that group of guys,

1047
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 8: you know, we'd be giving some buckets to the league.

1048
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 8: And the second thing is what advice should you give

1049
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 8: to these young players coming up, you know through the

1050
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 8: AA the tennis shoe circuits.

1051
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 2: You know, what do they what?

1052
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 8: What should they be looking out for and not doing

1053
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 8: or should they be doing to be further seen?

1054
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 5: The first question is hard to hard to answer that,

1055
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 5: but I would just say that, I mean, any team

1056
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 5: where I know I can play forty eight minutes, that's

1057
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 5: all I can say.

1058
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 2: That's all I can say.

1059
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 5: Anything I can play forty eight minutes, I think that

1060
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 5: I get a couple of buckets.

1061
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 2: And as far as like.

1062
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 5: The kids just a U circuit, I mean, it was

1063
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,479
Speaker 5: it was hard for me because what wasn't really hard

1064
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 5: because I started off playing with my local team to

1065
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:08,959
Speaker 5: South Georgia Kings.

1066
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 2: It was in Hinesville, Georgia.

1067
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 5: A lot of people don't really know, but it was

1068
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 5: just a small local team and I really wasn't getting

1069
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 5: seen like that. It was kind of I was playing

1070
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 5: good games, having really good tournaments, big tournaments, but I

1071
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 5: wasn't really getting seen because it wasn't in the bigger tournaments.

1072
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: So I just found the team, the Georgia Stars. They

1073
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 2: kind of believed in me.

1074
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 5: Atlanta team, they kind of just believed in me, and

1075
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 5: they came even b they drove all the way from

1076
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 5: Atlanta just to pick me up just to play games,

1077
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 5: just because they wanted me to play with them.

1078
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 2: And that's when I really started getting seen.

1079
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 5: After those tournaments, a couple of tournaments, I started getting

1080
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 5: my name out there. So I would say the biggest

1081
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 5: thing is, don't don't really worry about what circuit it is.

1082
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 5: No matter if it's under armoured Nike adida is they're

1083
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 5: always going to be as scouts or it's always going

1084
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 5: to be scouts at these tournaments because they're going to

1085
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 5: see other players. Like I feel like when I was

1086
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 5: when I was younger and with South Gegia Kings, and

1087
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 5: we played like an under armoured team, a big team,

1088
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 5: and they were scouts to see the under armoured people,

1089
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 5: not for us.

1090
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 2: But I would have a good game and it's like, oh,

1091
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 2: who is this guy? You know what I'm saying.

1092
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 5: So it was just like I never really looked at

1093
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 5: it like, man, I gotta play on the best Nike

1094
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,399
Speaker 5: circuit or I gotta play on the best under armoured

1095
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 5: circuit just to get seen. I just kind of was

1096
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 5: looking like I gotta be on the team where I

1097
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 5: know I'm gonna play. I know, I get to show

1098
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 5: my talent. I know someone that can believe me. Then

1099
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 5: after that, it's kind of like it's up in the air.

1100
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 5: You know, whoever whoever see me, whoever they don't. I mean,

1101
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 5: I know if I work hard, people are going to see.

1102
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 4: Give me to give me accurate because heights can be

1103
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 4: deflated when when they putting the heights on, Like so

1104
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 4: let me see, they said, I Everson with what six

1105
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 4: feet six one six, He's not He's not six for

1106
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 4: one six. Uh dame, they got dame listened six threes,

1107
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:47,479
Speaker 4: not six three. So what is your what they list

1108
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 4: you as first.

1109
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 5: So the NBA triggy they they list people when they

1110
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 5: do the heights, is they do with your shoes off? Yeah,

1111
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 5: And I think it's triggy because you don't ever play

1112
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 5: with your shoes off. So it's like, why are you

1113
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 5: measuring so my shoes off? I'm six v my shoes

1114
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 5: on six to.

1115
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 3: One and yeah that's so what do you tell people?

1116
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 3: Mostly six two six two? Okay? You doing?

1117
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 9: Daniel Golden, longtime tecond will fan kings fan, got a

1118
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 9: question for you. So when I watch you play, you've

1119
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 9: seen very very quick set, very very of course quickly.

1120
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 9: Same with the Fox in practice? How does it go

1121
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 9: between you and him? How does how do you?

1122
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 15: I mean, i'd excuse that would be like the greatest

1123
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 15: watch of all just see both you go at each

1124
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 15: other because you're both so quick. I honestly, I'm not

1125
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 15: sure that he's quicker than you. If anything, you guys

1126
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 15: about the same. That's my personal feeling. So I just

1127
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 15: want to know how you how those practices go with

1128
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 15: because I don't even got to be batter.

1129
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course I think the Yeah, it's it's definitely

1130
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 5: a tough battle. I mean, especially because the competitive van.

1131
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 5: I'm defensively, I'm I think I'm okay, and Fox are

1132
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 5: offensively is one of the top guys in our lead,

1133
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 5: so it's all always a battle. I mean, he will

1134
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 5: even tell you and I would say, as far as

1135
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 5: the quickness, I mean, I would say, people would say

1136
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 5: I'm quicker because I'm a lot it looks like I'm shorter.

1137
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 5: But Foxes he have longer arms, longer legs, so he's

1138
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 5: more skinnier, so.

1139
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 2: He's he's like faster. I would say he's faster.

1140
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 5: Here, I would say I can probably get to a

1141
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 5: spot quicker than him, but he's definitely faster.

1142
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 2: But it's definitely fun battles.

1143
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 5: Man, He's made me a lot better defender because no

1144
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 5: one is as fast as him in the league. So

1145
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 5: when I'm guarding to other people, I can use that

1146
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 5: to my advantage. Like, man, I guard Darren Fox every day,

1147
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 5: is no way you're gonna get by me, you know

1148
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Like, I can use my body, I

1149
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 5: can use my speed, so it makes it easier. So

1150
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 5: going against him has just been a blessing for me

1151
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 5: because it's making me better.

1152
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 2: All right, need more questions?

1153
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,240
Speaker 3: This another one of my neighbors right here, Robert.

1154
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 13: Ryan, born and raised in Texas, represented all of the teams.

1155
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,240
Speaker 13: But I have a question from you. Most college players

1156
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 13: go from one good conference to another. You left Auburn,

1157
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 13: which is SEC, and you went to Baylor, which is

1158
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 13: Big twelve, which is kind of not the same. What

1159
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 13: made you make that decision to jump from the SEC

1160
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 13: to Big twelve.

1161
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a story for that one. Yeah. So

1162
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 2: when I went to Auburn, we.

1163
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 5: Had really good guards Jared Harper and Bryce Brown all SEC.

1164
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 5: When I left, they end up taking their team to

1165
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 5: the Final four, and I knew I was gonna really

1166
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 5: have the opportunity toil like my junior year. And I

1167
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 5: was like, I don't think I should wait that long

1168
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 5: because I feel like I wasn't really getting better as

1169
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 5: far as that I was learning, but I wasn't really

1170
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 5: getting the reps, you know what I'm saying. And I

1171
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 5: feel like that's the best way to learn when you

1172
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 5: get the reps. And I knew I wouldn't get that many,

1173
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 5: so I transferred in. I mean, I averaged maybe like

1174
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 5: two points in Auburn, so it wasn't a lot of

1175
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 5: schools that after I transferred that kind of contacted me.

1176
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 5: It was like it was either Georgia State in Atlanta

1177
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 5: when I took a visit, or Saint John's in New York,

1178
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 5: and then Baylor ended up coming last because of a

1179
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 5: close friend I knew in high school I used to

1180
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 5: work out with. He knew one of the coaches from Baylor,

1181
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,879
Speaker 5: coach Brooks, and they kind of connected and saying like, yeah,

1182
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 5: I think we got a good guard for you and

1183
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 5: davey on and they just fell in love with the

1184
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 5: film and they kind of just went from there because

1185
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 5: I didn't have that many options because they was either

1186
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 5: I went to Georgia State before I went to Baylor,

1187
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 5: and I was supposed to take a visit to Saint

1188
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 5: John's and I knew it was gonna be tough because

1189
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 5: I don't really like being in New York anyways.

1190
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 2: Because it's just so many people.

1191
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 5: So it's just after I took that Baylor visit before

1192
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 5: I went the same time as I committed the same

1193
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 5: visit because I'm like, it's no need for me to

1194
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 5: go to New York.

1195
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 2: I know where I want to be, So that's why

1196
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: I went to Big twelve.

1197
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 5: It wasn't really I didn't even look at the conferences

1198
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 5: as a thing, like it was just Baylor was a

1199
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,240
Speaker 5: really good school for me. They had a grad transfer.

1200
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 5: I knew I was gonna play the next year. I

1201
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 5: know they wanted the ball in my hands. They their

1202
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 5: culture is just completely different then the after the book

1203
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 5: before actually before me, they had all their guards went

1204
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 5: to all Big twelve.

1205
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 2: So I was like, it's perfect for me. So it

1206
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 2: was a perfect situation.

1207
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 3: And do you.

1208
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 13: Believe and do you believe that that change actually helped

1209
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 13: you get into.

1210
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:03,439
Speaker 2: The that was I would think that.

1211
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 5: I mean Auburn definitely, Auburn definitely helped me transfer because

1212
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 5: they if I wouldn't win and went to Auburn, then

1213
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 5: I would and went to Baylor, and I wouldn't have

1214
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 5: won a national championship.

1215
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 2: I probably wouldn't have been a nine pick.

1216
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 5: So everything just happened for a reason, Like me going

1217
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 5: to Auburn just showed me that, Okay, it's just a

1218
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 5: new spot I can go to. And I think that

1219
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 5: Baylor did a phenomenal job with me as far as

1220
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 5: I mean teaching me how to play the game the

1221
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 5: right way, teaching me just to be a better person,

1222
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 5: just to just other things that Baylor taught me that

1223
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 5: a lot of people are not gonna get from these

1224
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 5: these huge schools like I think Kentucky's and the things

1225
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 5: like that for the names.

1226
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 2: I think Baylor was just a really good school all

1227
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 2: and all.

1228
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 3: I think I think I'm back here now, Okay.

1229
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 4: So indeed, there is a majority of people aren't going

1230
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 4: to reach six ' five six six six seven, so

1231
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 4: most people are going to be six foot or under.

1232
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 3: What would what would you say? What's your lesson to.

1233
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 4: The smaller guy that want to make the lead, and

1234
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 4: what do you think helped you ultimately as a smaller guy,

1235
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 4: helped you to be able to dominate at the levels

1236
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,240
Speaker 4: you have to get to ultimately this level.

1237
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 5: So I think a lot of people look at as

1238
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 5: as like even as little guards or even as taller

1239
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 5: people like to get to the lead. They always look

1240
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 5: at like, I got to be able to shoot, I

1241
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,399
Speaker 5: gotta be able to pass, I got to be able

1242
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 5: to play defense. They try to they try to add

1243
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 5: all these things in their game and try to be

1244
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 5: great at but people don't realize if you're really great

1245
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 5: at one thing, and for me, as defensively, you can

1246
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 5: get in the leader if you have a little bit

1247
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:35,919
Speaker 5: of offense or if you show that you can win,

1248
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 5: Like you don't have to be great at everything. And

1249
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 5: I think that's where a lot of people work at

1250
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 5: when they try to work out and try to go

1251
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 5: to the school, like, man, I got to be really

1252
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 5: good at this, this, this and that, and it's hard

1253
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 5: to do that when you don't have that much time,

1254
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So you have to just

1255
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 5: be I think for someone smaller like under six feet

1256
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 5: and under or even six foot six two, I think

1257
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 5: if you're great at one thing, that the lead is

1258
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 5: gonna love, you know what I'm saying, Because if you're

1259
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 5: great at one thing, a lot of people, a lot

1260
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 5: of people that's good at basketball are just okay at everything,

1261
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. But if you're great at

1262
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 5: one thing, the league can use, you know what I'm saying,

1263
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 5: If someone they can use someone that can just play defense.

1264
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 5: Maybe you ain't gonna play as minus minutes, but you'll

1265
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 5: get better. You'll get you'll become a better shooter to

1266
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 5: get more minutes, you become a better decision maker, you

1267
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 5: becod of just a better teammate all in all, So

1268
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 5: I would just say, look at that.

1269
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 3: You don't never I did this in college. I'm six

1270
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 3: two with shoes on.

1271
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 4: But I would look at guys who are six six,

1272
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 4: and I'd be like, if I have five more issues.

1273
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 3: Like they ain't better to be.

1274
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 2: They just got always they's got the inchest. It's always

1275
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 2: like that.

1276
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 4: You always look you look at some of these guys,

1277
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 4: he'd be like, man, your skill set, Like my skill

1278
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 4: set is way better than yours, but you just got

1279
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 4: six inches on me.

1280
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 2: But that's a problem.

1281
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 3: Like this over here, yo, like this dude over here

1282
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 3: and my preacher to the choir let my bad.

1283
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 2: I would say that it's tough, but I always think

1284
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 2: of it like that too.

1285
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 5: But it's like maybe if I was six eight with

1286
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 5: the same skill set, I wouldn't be as fast, you

1287
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like.

1288
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 2: Like it's just different things.

1289
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 5: You can look at it, like if someone was six

1290
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 5: six and saying, mane, if I was shorter, maybe I

1291
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 5: can move it's faster than Maybe you wouldn't have the

1292
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 5: left that I want, you know what I'm saying.

1293
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 2: It's just different things to look at it.

1294
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,439
Speaker 5: Like Isaiah Thomas, like one of the greats, a close

1295
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 5: friend of mine too, Like he had all the skill

1296
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,720
Speaker 5: in the world. Maybe if he was six seven, of course,

1297
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 5: he maybe be the best player, but he wouldn't be

1298
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 5: as skilled, he wouldn't be as fast because he used

1299
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 5: that to his advantage to other people, because he's lower

1300
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 5: than everyone. Because I just look at it a different way, Like,

1301
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 5: but I feel what you're saying though, Like maybe if

1302
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 5: I was seven foot and I had the same skill set,

1303
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:41,280
Speaker 5: I'll be a Kevin Durant.

1304
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 2: But it's like, no, I wouldn't you know what I'm saying.

1305
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 4: I just I just see a lot of six seven

1306
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 4: people like the guy.

1307
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 3: It's waste wasted? Was all right?

1308
00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 4: Were about to about the Uh trying to cut the minute?

1309
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 4: Is there any I will make sure I don't miss it,

1310
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 4: but I'll make sure I give everybody up. God, come on, man,

1311
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 4: you got the Kings Georgy Sir? I like that?

1312
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 3: Okay, great to meet today.

1313
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 16: The answer just curious, what's your nice, big Kings fan?

1314
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 16: Curious with the draft that just happened with the Kings

1315
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 16: you pay attention at all and seeing who got drafted

1316
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 16: and what you think about them?

1317
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 5: Uh, to be honest, to be honest with you, uh. Oh,

1318
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 5: to be honest with you, I didn't know anything about

1319
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:41,959
Speaker 5: like Husually when I'm in the NBA, I don't really

1320
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 5: watch much college basketball unless it's Baylor, Like I only

1321
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 5: watch Baylor. So I don't really know anything about the guys.

1322
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 5: I mean, but I'm sure they're going to be really

1323
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 5: good because if the Kings picked them, there's a reason

1324
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 5: why they picked them. There's the reason why they're in

1325
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 5: the league. So I mean much respect to them, but

1326
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 5: I don't really know much about them. I can't tell

1327
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 5: you anything about them.

1328
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 3: Actually, that's dope. Mark Smith Soccer appreciate it.

1329
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 17: So a couple questions. You mentioned you're a gym rat,

1330
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 17: you're hard worker. I want to know what's your daily

1331
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 17: schedule this off season. You know, what's an every day

1332
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 17: kind of like for you.

1333
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 5: I mean, I can just tell you about today. I

1334
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 5: feel like today it was pretty long. So I usually

1335
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 5: wake up. I'm not really a big sleeper. I don't

1336
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 5: really sleep as much. I kind of go to sleep

1337
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 5: around like ten o'clock and I wake up usually like six.

1338
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,799
Speaker 5: It's probably because I don't have black curtains though. It's

1339
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 5: like every time the sun comes up, I go up,

1340
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 5: so I wake up at six, uh win today, to

1341
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,720
Speaker 5: the gym at seven o'clock, lifted at seven point thirty.

1342
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 5: Then I'm on the court right after that, and then

1343
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 5: we end up playing together like three on three and.

1344
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 2: Stuff like that with a couple of players is there.

1345
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 5: And then after that at around eight o'clock, I'm going

1346
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 5: back to the gym and I'm finished for tonight.

1347
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 2: Yes, yesterday, Yeah, definitely that.

1348
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 17: So my second question, you know, you mentioned that you're

1349
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 17: kind of patting your defensi game after the Drew Holidays

1350
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 17: and Market Smarts p your top five defensive guards or

1351
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 17: defensive players of all.

1352
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 2: Time all time.

1353
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 5: I honestly would just say, I mean, you gotta put

1354
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 5: Draymond up there, of course, Drew Holliday, Marcus Smart. I'm saying,

1355
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 5: like people that are to perim and I feel like

1356
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 5: black Shots is completely differences, completely different, uh aspect. I

1357
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 5: think Michael Bridges is up there. And I would say

1358
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 5: the last one, I mean, can I put myself definitely myself?

1359
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 2: Yeah there you go.

1360
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 4: Yeah really man, For the bottom of my heart, man,

1361
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 4: I appreciate you for coming out man, supporting my wife

1362
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 4: out here at Charlotte's b Supply here and.

1363
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 3: They'll grove everybody. You're a robber Fossett, Bayon and wife.

1364
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 2: And that'll do it for us. See you next time.

1365
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,879
Speaker 1: This league and Cutters and iHeart Radio Production.

1366
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:05,280
Speaker 2: Don't sad a look up Christine's de marks time