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Speaker 1: Who's called Anthony Towns go but man, that man Broun,

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Speaker 1: different man, brin something special, just straight off the rip.

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Speaker 1: He's the best player I've never seen Tyler.

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Speaker 2: Watch all my Life, Grinding all my life, sacrifice Hustle

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Speaker 2: Pegg Price Wan Slice got the bron Geist Swap all

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Speaker 2: my Life, Poppy grinding all my life, All my life,

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Speaker 2: grinding all my life, sacrifics Hustle Pegg Price One.

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Speaker 3: Slice got the bronc Geist.

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Speaker 2: Swap all my life, Poppy grinding all my life.

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Speaker 4: Hello, welcome to another edition of Club Shayshe I am

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Speaker 4: your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriud of Club

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Speaker 4: Sha Sha and today we're at Spotlight l A. The

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Speaker 4: guy that's stopping by for a conversation and the drink

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Speaker 4: today is one of the most skilled big men to

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Speaker 4: ever touch a basketball. He's arguably the best shooting big

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Speaker 4: man of all time, first in the league history to

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Speaker 4: have ten May threes, ten May twos, and ten May

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Speaker 4: free throws in the same game. He's the only center

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Speaker 4: in NBA history to in the Three Point Contest and

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Speaker 4: the Skills Challenge. He's a four time NBA All Star,

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Speaker 4: a two time All NBA member, the number one overall

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Speaker 4: draft pick in twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen NBA Rookie of

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Speaker 4: the Year, twenty fifteen SEC Freshman of the Year, twenty

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Speaker 4: fourteen Gatorade National Player of the Year. McDonald's All American

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Speaker 4: Kentucky alum, and he's the winner of the prestigious Kareem

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Speaker 4: I Due with Jabbar Social Justice Award. Here he is,

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Speaker 4: Ladies and Gentlemen superstar, the Unicorn Cat.

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Speaker 1: Oh appreciate you, man, Appreciate you, bro. How you being man,

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Speaker 1: I've been good. Life span treating me well. How's the summer, man,

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Speaker 1: It's good. Got to travel, get more cultured, you know,

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Speaker 1: see some new faces. God is good. Man.

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Speaker 3: You know what, cat you you ain't gonna lie. You

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Speaker 3: know what.

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Speaker 4: We got to a little toast, you know, since she's

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Speaker 4: a Mennican at all, you know, I know you've put down,

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Speaker 4: You're known to put down.

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Speaker 3: You're tired. We ain't gonna do that that much because

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Speaker 3: you know, come on, just a little something.

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Speaker 1: I'm with it.

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Speaker 3: That's my own knyak.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna real yeah that we're gonna sing you home

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Speaker 4: with about Shamela Portier.

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Speaker 1: You know, come on, where the camera?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, far to all the success, everything that you've

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Speaker 4: accomplished and will continue to complish it.

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Speaker 3: Think them coming about closer. That makes move, ain't it.

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Speaker 1: That's good?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I see what you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: Un Yeah, that's what That's what's going down. Okay.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate that you called this thing. You said, I'm

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Speaker 4: the greatest shooting big man of all time. People like, well,

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Speaker 4: hold on, did Dirk not play in the NBA?

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Speaker 1: Noah, Dirk was Definitely.

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Speaker 4: When you said that, you knew that you were going

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Speaker 4: to catch some criticism. But does that just mean that No,

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Speaker 4: I just got confidence on myself. I'm secure what I've

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Speaker 4: been able to do, and I shoot the basketball. That's

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Speaker 4: why I said what I said.

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Speaker 5: Nah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, come on, you what you're supposed to say?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you you are pro You know how it is.

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Speaker 1: You gotta have ultimate confidence in yourself. No one got

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Speaker 1: confidence in you. As long as you got it you solid.

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Speaker 1: So I just know, you know, when I was, I

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Speaker 1: spoke from the heart. You know, I know the hours

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to kind of set in stone what

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Speaker 1: I feel about myself and how I feel what I

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Speaker 1: just going to continue to prove it every single year,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I'm gonna let the people choose. But

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at the stats in three point percentage, You're

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Speaker 3: Towns has two.

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Speaker 4: U you shot a higher PERCENTY from the field in

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Speaker 4: the regular season, higher percenty from the free throw and

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Speaker 4: his prime Karl Anthony Towns today Dirt in his prime.

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Speaker 4: Do you believe you could beat him in a three

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Speaker 1: I think I could be at anybody. But I also

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Speaker 1: that I could shoot threes at a higher rate and

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Speaker 3: As long as I can get that ring, you know,

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Speaker 1: Man, he was a beast. I remember sitting in Jersey

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Speaker 1: just watching them. I'm like, man, like, if I could

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Speaker 1: when you're young in Jersey, especially somewhere that hasn't made

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Speaker 1: to Scataway, right, you're just hoping to just be able

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Speaker 1: to play college basketball, you know, shooting like that. As

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Speaker 4: So You've got two sixty point games, three fifty point games,

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Speaker 3: And you said, you know, be able to shoot the basketball?

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Speaker 3: About that for real? Yeah? You did all that? Damn

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest, and I don't even know if

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Speaker 4: you knew in college, we didn't see you shoot the ball. Now,

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Speaker 4: when did you know you could shoot the basketball? Damn cat,

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Speaker 4: before college you could always shoot like that. I happened

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Speaker 4: You know when when I went to Kentucky, Kyle knew

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Speaker 4: had the UK Pro Day, I don't know if anyone

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Speaker 1: So everyone knew I could shoot. But there was things

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Speaker 1: I was truly prepared for what comes being an NBA

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Speaker 1: And you know that the ability to score at three

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at you. I look at you and the

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Speaker 4: way you played in college. I look at Anthony Davis,

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Speaker 4: another guy that was mainly a blog, shot, rebound the basketball,

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Speaker 4: he can average. You know, he can add one year

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Speaker 4: you have with twenty eight and eleven. What is it

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Speaker 4: that is it storing easier in the NBA than it

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Speaker 1: I think it's just different games. I think it's just

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Speaker 1: different games. I think that when you see what Ad

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Speaker 1: believe it went National Player of the Years.

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Speaker 3: Yes, he did.

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Speaker 1: He did was needed for his team, and I think

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Speaker 1: both of us did the same thing when we went

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Speaker 1: to Kentucky. We have to learn how to sacrifice at

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Speaker 1: the highest level. You know, we're all guys.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's a five star.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but also everyone wants to feed their family. They

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Speaker 3: You need to tell me you ain't go to Kentucky

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Speaker 3: to be an accountant or a lawyer or a doctor.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I want to be aciologist. And they had the

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Speaker 1: and shout out to my mom. You know, she was

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Speaker 3: When you go to a school and you know some

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Speaker 4: You played with them in McDonald's All America, you played

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Speaker 3: You saw them.

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Speaker 4: You said that, Look, everybody wants to go to the

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Speaker 4: how do you blend like, Okay, yeah, I want to

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Speaker 4: But in the same breath, I need X amount of shots,

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Speaker 1: You know, when we were at Kentucky, we never even

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Speaker 1: it was all about getting to win. Like we didn't

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Speaker 1: a little bit like Olympic basketball. Okay, you're a national

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Speaker 1: We went for our our fans in our college, you know,

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Speaker 1: I could definitely think of one game for sure, but

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Speaker 1: there's been games where I think I scored two points

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Speaker 3: CBS Man's the Cat. You can't score two point two.

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Speaker 1: Points blocked one by like twenty. We all went home

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Speaker 1: like you said, future NBA picks, to be able to

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Speaker 4: How difficult was it your thirty eight, O, you got

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Speaker 3: I mean, you had a great season.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you made the All Star Game, All Star Team, y'all,

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Speaker 1: What happened, they played really good basketball and we didn't

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Speaker 3: They had you guys down twenty in game seven, Yes,

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Speaker 3: You on the road, You're in a hostile environment.

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Speaker 4: They have the defense, they have the MVP, three time

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Speaker 1: You know, for us it was Finchy. I mean, coach

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Speaker 3: You mentioned that you guys go into the locker room

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Speaker 4: Obviously he's probably talking to the assistance and about coming

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Speaker 3: You need to play battle, you need to do this.

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Speaker 3: Cat shot went falling.

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Speaker 4: No, he shot thirty seven percent from the floor, shot

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Speaker 4: Obviously you got to process a lot, Cat a lot

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Speaker 4: Is that something that you could Obviously, you know we're

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Speaker 4: does Kat break up his workouts to make sure he's

437
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Speaker 4: getting the work that he needs so when he gets

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Speaker 3: It's second nature for me.

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Speaker 1: When I in a regular, regular season, postseason, whatever, it's

441
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Speaker 1: the same routine all the time. I usually first one

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Speaker 1: seven if it depends the time of practice, but let's

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445
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446
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Speaker 1: red bed. After that, head back, get work on my body,

447
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Speaker 1: do pt session with the people there, Go on the court,

448
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Speaker 1: shoot shoot for an hour, go lift, come back to

449
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Speaker 1: Luca Garza okay, and then you know, go home.

452
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Speaker 3: Rest up.

453
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Speaker 1: I've been there for a long time. It's probably now

454
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Speaker 1: we're talking about from six in the morning. I'm leaving

455
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Speaker 1: around two o'clock, three o'clock. If I get a massage

456
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Speaker 1: to take care of my body, going the cold tub

457
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Speaker 1: after and everything probably about full thirty five and then

458
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Speaker 1: get home. Got a core at the house, so shooting

459
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Speaker 1: more shots at the house, and then just relax, take

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Speaker 1: care of my body, do some rehab ice game ready,

461
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Speaker 1: you know, Norman Tech. So really, just I love this game.

462
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Speaker 1: I love my job, I love my craft. So I

463
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Speaker 1: just dedicate my whole entire life to it. And I

464
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Speaker 1: smile because I just I always think about every day

465
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Speaker 1: about playing basketball and happy. Even before this, I got

466
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Speaker 1: to play a lot of basketball.

467
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Speaker 4: You said, man, I get up fifteen hundred shots to day.

468
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Speaker 4: Charles Barkin said he ain't happening. Shocks like the fact

469
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Speaker 4: that he's not upset concerns. May Dremond can't and say

470
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Speaker 4: you were capping. I mean, look, I don't know what's

471
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Speaker 4: what's normal for an NBA player. How many shots he

472
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Speaker 4: gets up? I don't know if it's fifty, I don't

473
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Speaker 4: know if it's five.

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Speaker 1: How many passes you catch a day?

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Speaker 5: When he was playing, when it threw him to me, Hey,

476
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Speaker 5: I saw the jacket you got on. They threw it

477
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Speaker 5: to you a lot, they did.

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Speaker 4: They did you know, we caught jugs, I caught drugs,

479
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Speaker 4: and we tried to catch fifty passes, but we had

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Speaker 4: to catch fifty in a row, so if we dropped,

481
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Speaker 4: we had to start a hold over again. So yeah,

482
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Speaker 4: I called at least fifty you know quarterbacks. Through doing so,

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Speaker 4: I would say during the course of a practice, given

484
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Speaker 4: seventy five, say probably seventy five passes a.

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Speaker 3: Day, you hear that.

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Speaker 1: That means it ain't dropping no passes.

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Speaker 3: No, no, not cause you don't.

488
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Speaker 4: God, you've already been out there for hour and a half,

489
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Speaker 4: two hours, and so you already tired. So you got

490
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Speaker 4: a concentration because concentration breaking not the ball hit. And

491
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Speaker 4: you might be at twenty five, you might be at thirty.

492
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Speaker 4: Now you got to start all back over again. So

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Speaker 4: you didn't want that to happen. And the thing, the

494
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Speaker 4: last thing you want to happen, cat is that being

495
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Speaker 4: a situation where it's fourth down or is it late

496
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Speaker 4: in the ball game, and your lack of concentration you

497
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Speaker 4: drop a pass and the.

498
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Speaker 1: Lack of reps that's the moment where those reps count.

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Speaker 4: Right right, And so we catch involved at different angles,

500
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Speaker 4: shoe tops, over the shoulder, different things like that. But

501
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Speaker 4: when people call in the question how hard you're actually working,

502
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Speaker 4: does that bother you or you just brush it off because.

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Speaker 3: These are not normal guys. No, no, if I were

504
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Speaker 3: to say that, yeah, you wouldn't even play.

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Speaker 1: You talking about NBA legends.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the game.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I know the work I put in, so

508
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Speaker 1: I don't even have to explain it.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 1: I know who was there when the gym was dark,

511
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Speaker 1: and I know who turned the lights on. Okay, I

512
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Speaker 1: ain't worried about that. I know one thing when I

513
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Speaker 1: was said, I know, and was not happy about that

514
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Speaker 1: because he was like, I know, I've seen you in

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Speaker 1: there even I'm when I show up, you've been there

516
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Speaker 1: sweating and when I leave, you still going for another one. So,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I don't got to explain. I know

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Speaker 1: what I do in the gym. I know the work

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Speaker 1: I put in. Shout out to the coaches PD coaches Corliss,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Hansen, Moses, you know, shout out to all the

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Speaker 1: guys over there in Minnesota who willing to you know,

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Speaker 1: as you know, put their lives to the side, you know, wives, kids,

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Speaker 1: willing to dedicate that amount of time to me to

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Speaker 1: allow me to shoot the basketball, to me, allow me

525
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Speaker 1: to work on my game, and allow me to be

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Speaker 1: the best version of myself. So shout out to them

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Speaker 1: last year especially, you know, we gave up a lot

528
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Speaker 1: of their time. You know, they could have been given

529
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Speaker 1: to their kids and their family, and they were in

530
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Speaker 1: the gym working.

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Speaker 3: Dedicated to you getting better.

532
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Speaker 4: Kyrie had praised for you after the credit he after

533
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Speaker 4: that criticism, you came back dropped twenty five nine of thirteen,

534
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Speaker 4: shooting four or five from the three. Kyrie said, despite

535
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Speaker 4: the unfair criticism we received, he's a great, great player.

536
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Speaker 4: I respect him. I know my teammates respect him. That's

537
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Speaker 4: what great players do. They figure it out.

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Speaker 1: That's that's my jersey dog, my guy. You know what, man,

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Speaker 1: I've known Kyrie since he was young, and I've seen

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Speaker 1: the work he put into his game. So I know

541
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Speaker 1: everyone goes so crazy when he's doing these layups he's dribbling,

542
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Speaker 1: but I've seen him since he was young doing that.

543
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Speaker 1: I've seen the hours he was putting in. I seen

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Speaker 1: the work he was putting in. I've seen the drills

545
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Speaker 1: he was putting. I definitely stole a lot of the

546
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Speaker 1: drills for myself so I can improve myself as a player.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you're watching greatness, you study greatness and

548
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Speaker 1: you try to implement it into your game. And I

549
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Speaker 1: got none but praise for Kyrie. I've you know, I've

550
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Speaker 1: been like I said, I've been blessed to watch him

551
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Speaker 1: since I was young, before the NBA, before Duke, before

552
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Speaker 1: any of that, just to see where he's at now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, in my eyes, he's a legend the game.

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Speaker 3: Are you surprised with the ease or seemingly eased?

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Speaker 4: It looked like it was easy the Celtics handled the

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Speaker 4: long series. I thought it would be at least I

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Speaker 4: thought it would be an angle like that. I thought

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Speaker 4: it'd be at least a six to seven game series.

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Speaker 1: Celtics was really good last year. Okay, they've been good

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Speaker 1: for years, but they.

562
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Speaker 3: Was locked in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm trying to say. They was

564
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Speaker 1: locked in last year. They like I know, one of

565
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Speaker 1: the reporters was telling me about you gotta lose to

566
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Speaker 1: Boston had to go through that. They've been just so good,

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Speaker 1: Took care of my boy and my brother, Deshaun Butler

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Speaker 1: Just go out there and do what you do. I mean,

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Speaker 4: winning a championship. But if this core, if you guys

654
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Speaker 4: don't get to the NBA finals, if you guys don't win,

655
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Speaker 4: will this be disappointing?

656
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Speaker 1: I mean it would be disappointing. For the fact that

657
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: we made at the Western Conference finals and we haven't

658
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: took that next step, which is to make the NBA Finals.

659
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna be disappointing. You know, Minnesota deserves

660
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: the championship. They've they've been asking for a championship since

661
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: it exception as a team. So you know, I've always

662
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: said I wanted to bring them a championship. I wanted

663
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: to be a part of the championship team that finally

664
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Speaker 1: brings that ring in that parade down to first half.

665
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: You know, we just gotta keep working, keep working. I

666
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: think that you say it's a disappointment, it's something that

667
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: I think everyone's gonna feel the same way if they

668
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: didn't win a championship. It's everyone is a disappointment if

669
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: you don't come out with a ring out of it.

670
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Speaker 4: When you look at and a lot of people didn't

671
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 4: think the the Rudy Gobert addition, because you're like, this

672
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 4: is not the nineties basketball.

673
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 3: You don't really need to sell foot this. You need

674
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 3: a guy.

675
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: We got three of them almost yeah, exactly right.

676
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 4: Because the way Cat can play with his back to

677
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 4: the basket, he can shoot the three. And then when

678
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 4: you look at Rudy, there are certain situations that you

679
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 4: have to take him out of the game.

680
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 3: It's just what it is.

681
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 4: He's a four time Defensive Player of the Year. He

682
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 4: makes a boatload of money, but the facts of the

683
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 4: matter is that a lot of times lay in the

684
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 4: ball game he's not.

685
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 3: On the court.

686
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 4: Cat, I'm not breaking This is not interrupting your normal schedule, programming,

687
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 4: breaking news till your cat. You know that because you're there.

688
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 4: How were you able to put it together this year?

689
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 4: Because the first year it didn't work at and this

690
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 4: year you made it all the way to the Western

691
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 4: Conference plot.

692
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Speaker 1: I think it's he gets unfair Christians because he brings

693
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: a lot to our team that we need, right like

694
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: the defense. I mean, this is a generational defensive player.

695
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: And around the basket. I think we all could agree

696
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: in the NBA Goats, any of the colleagues. If he's

697
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: around the basket of the ball, you know he gonna

698
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: dunk it. You know it's gonna be tough, it feel

699
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: me tough to stop that field goal percentage from going down.

700
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: So his first year in Minnesota, I I it's it's unfortunate.

701
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: It's unfair because I think that we weren't at full strength,

702
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: and I also got hurt. I'm never gotten hurt like that.

703
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,239
Speaker 1: So to be in that situation was and put him

704
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: in that situation, you know, it was unfair. And I

705
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: think that this year, you know, with me healthy coming

706
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: in and playing a lot of the season healthy, you

707
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: could see what happens when you put the team around

708
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: him and we have you know, the lob opportunities. Making

709
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: him have the four or five pick and roll was

710
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: amazing all year, putting him in spots where he could be.

711
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: You know, he's super successful on offense and defensively. I mean,

712
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: you see what he does for our team, so number one,

713
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: number one team in the NBA and defense, and it's

714
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: not without Rudy Gobert. Especially Jade McDaniels too want to

715
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: give him a shoutout. But without Rudy, I don't, I don't,

716
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: We're not going to be near near nowhere near the

717
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: same defensive team as we were.

718
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 4: You willing to take a one hundred plus million dollar

719
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 4: pay cut like Jalen Brunson did, keep this thing together.

720
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: We can keep it all together, and we can keep

721
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: it together, right, show me that we all got to

722
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: get in the room and say we're gonna do it right,

723
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: So I mean Jalen Brunson shout out to him, Yeah,

724
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: shout out to him.

725
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 3: That's why.

726
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: I mean ten million. Okay, that's a lot ten million

727
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: even like, hey, but you know what, you know what,

728
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: you can't put a value on the fact that he's

729
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: at where he wants to be. Yeah, And I think

730
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: that's a big value number that no one's thinking of.

731
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: He's with his father, he's super comfortable, he has a

732
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: team that believes in him. I think that that belief

733
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: that a team and an organization could give you is

734
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: something It's worth a lot, a lot, a lot of money.

735
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: And they give him that that belief And I think

736
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: that he thought that was the best situation for him.

737
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: But I rew him off for that.

738
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Speaker 3: I was a man.

739
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 4: As a teammate. We see the charisma, we see the charm. Yeah,

740
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 4: he's funny, Yeah, he's outgoing. Yes all oh brow we

741
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 4: saw him at the Olympics. Yeah, talking to Stelle So

742
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 4: but Steph ain't show up but for the last three days.

743
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 4: But I'm glad he showed up. With how glad he

744
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 4: showed up?

745
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 3: We did. That's that's nia. What's he like on and

746
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 3: off the court.

747
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: I mean on the court. You see what he is.

748
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: He's a competitor, fierce competitor. He loves competing, he loves

749
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys when you know, when you

750
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: play at the park, if you're telling me come to

751
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: the part we're gonna play basketball, you always show up.

752
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: He always going to show up for show. You know,

753
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: you got a teammate with him. So and off the

754
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: court man, like you said, charismatic, funny, maybe the funniest

755
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: player on our team. And we got some funny guys

756
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: on our team. So he's one of those guys you

757
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: really have, super appreciative and blessed to be able to

758
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: be in a locker room with them. They just bring

759
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: the morale up, you know, And I think that's rare

760
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: for someone as young as he is, as talented as

761
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: he is, and what we ask from him every single night,

762
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: to be able to bring that kind of energy to

763
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: the locker room. Like Mike Conley said one time, he

764
00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: makes him feel young again.

765
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Speaker 4: Right when when you hear aunt they talking about, well

766
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 4: he could be the next face of the NBA.

767
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: I think he can.

768
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 4: He reminds a lot of people of Jordan's what is

769
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 4: it about him? What is it about that makes you?

770
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 4: And you said it as soon as I will saying

771
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 4: that he like he can? What makes you so sure?

772
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 1: Well, before we get to that, I think what we

773
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: need to also understand is, I know he met he

774
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: reminds people a lot about Jordan. But when I just

775
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: aunt he could be the first Anthony Edwards, yeah, you know,

776
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: which ain't bad at all? Yeah, well he said yet third.

777
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 7: Yeah, So.

778
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: I think he just he he has the charisma, age

779
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: is on his side, he has the athleticism, you know,

780
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: and and he got better at shooting.

781
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 3: Got you know.

782
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: I just I think he could do it. I think

783
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: he could do it. And this is a very guard

784
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: friendly league, and he's a guard that has all the

785
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: not only the skill, but the intangibles needed to really

786
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: be the face to the NBA for years to come.

787
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,479
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, he got good vets

788
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: around him, and Mike Conley has been amazing for him.

789
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: So I think he could do it. I think he

790
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: could really do something special. And I think what also

791
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: can help is winning, and we've shown and starting to

792
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: do that. So if we can win at the highest level,

793
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: what can you you can't already can't tell aunt nothing right,

794
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: So imagine you put a ring too with a championship.

795
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 1: Oh man, oh man, we can't tell him nothing.

796
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 4: Can't Of all the teammates that I've seen you have

797
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 4: in the NBA, and I'm on the outside looking in,

798
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 4: I don't know this to be true, but it just

799
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 4: seems to me. You have the best relationship with him,

800
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 4: and you take criticism, you take coaching, You'll take praise

801
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 4: from him better than any other teammate.

802
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 3: If I'm right, I'm right. If I'm wrong, I apologize.

803
00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 4: What is it about him in your relationship that you're

804
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 4: so accepting of the advice the input that he gives you?

805
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: You know, I just want to help him grow in

806
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: every single facet of his game, not only his game,

807
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: but his life.

808
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 3: You know.

809
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: I want to help him be a better man. I

810
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: want to help him be a better to His brother

811
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: is a better brother. I want him. I want to

812
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: be able to help him the ways I feel that

813
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: sometimes I couldn't get that help because you know, I

814
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: was in a situation. I know how it feels to

815
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: be him in that situation. Number one, pick whole state

816
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: asking you to help save him and to help them

817
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: bring a championship home. And I just wanted to be

818
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 1: a support system for him any way possible I could.

819
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: So I want to help him grow, and I think

820
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: in helping someone achieve their full potential and something that

821
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: I feel that I'm going to continue to work, not

822
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: only as a leader, but just helping him as a brother.

823
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: You got to let them be free, you know. You

824
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: can't give them too much constraint.

825
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 7: You know.

826
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: Maybe sometimes I gotta tell him, maybe you should have

827
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: said that, maybe you should scale back on doing this.

828
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: Maybe you take this, you take this one on. I

829
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: got it. I'll take this conversation on and I'll have

830
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: this conbo with whoever it is. I just want him

831
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: to be himself, you know, and I've stressed out to

832
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: him since day one. So all I try to do

833
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: every single day is make sure ancests comfortable as possible,

834
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: and he could be himself as much as possible.

835
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 3: You want to see An do the dunk contest.

836
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: I do. He don't want to, though, really I do.

837
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 4: So we get we get Ant, we get Jah, we

838
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 4: get Zion, we get Zach Lavigne to come back.

839
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 3: I don't know we're gonna get ag because.

840
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: Hell no, you ain't gonna go to the bank with

841
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: me twice to go rob the bank. You're gonna leave

842
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: me there.

843
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,919
Speaker 4: So we get we get those four guys because, let's

844
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 4: be honest, dunk contest because the names aren't there. You

845
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 4: used to get the Doctor Jade and the Michael Jordan

846
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 4: and the Clyde Dresslers. You got the big the players

847
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 4: that were like the best players that couldunk. The dominique

848
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 4: will Yeah, they did it. Now we're getting guys and

849
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 4: that's no slight. That's no slight to anybody that's won

850
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 4: the dunk contest. Congratulations, but it's kind of hard to

851
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 4: contentially sell when the guy that's winning he's not even

852
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 4: in the NBA, okay, or the guys.

853
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: That's what I do is the best dunker put here

854
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: in NBA, but he but he the best dunker.

855
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 4: I mean, that's like I said, the best receiverfl.

856
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: You two different stories, you talk about two different sports.

857
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 3: But but I think it would if it would, I

858
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 3: know what you're trying to say.

859
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: We're trying to say those back in the day used

860
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: to have the stars, yet they did it doing the dunk.

861
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 4: They did it because that's what we get in the

862
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 4: three point competition, like were getting in the three point competition,

863
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 4: we get steph we get Dane Clay participated. I mean

864
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 4: a lot of the three but a lot of the

865
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 4: great three point shooters they're shooting, they participated. Yeah, but

866
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 4: the great dunkers for whatever reason, even Kobe Kobe did it.

867
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: I just feel like, I just feel like, you know,

868
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: we in a new era with social media. We got

869
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: more eyes, we got more chances to see more talent.

870
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: You know, I understand the stars is you know, Anthony

871
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: ed warres Zion, John Morant. I mean there they They're

872
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: enticing names who have the ability to use athleticism at

873
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: the highest level in game. I just feel but you

874
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 1: never know, like these dudes like Mac McClung is amazing dunker,

875
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: and he's a great dunk contest dunker. Yes, and there's

876
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: a reason why he wins.

877
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 4: Can let me ask you this has the dunk lost

878
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 4: its appeal because of the three points?

879
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: I think public scrutiny has kind of messed with the

880
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: perception of the dunk contest. I think we're seeing dunks.

881
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,280
Speaker 1: Jacob Hoppin was doing some crazy dunks.

882
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 4: Himself because what he's gonna do he like bounced it

883
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 4: off the floor between his leg and like a three

884
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 4: sixty something.

885
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: I was there. I watched it with my own two eyes.

886
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: I see some dunks I ain't ever thought was possible.

887
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 3: Wow.

888
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: And Mack McClung did some amazing dunks. Jacob Topping did

889
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: some amazing dunks. So it's like we see in dunk's Like,

890
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: so if if you had the same dunk and you

891
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: changed the name on the back of the jersey, does

892
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 1: that still change the fact we all have seen a

893
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: dunk that's never been done. What I'm trying to say, Like,

894
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: I understand the back of the jersey or I get that,

895
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: But there's guys out here who are using that dunk

896
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: contests the opportunity to prove what they are to the

897
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: NBA and to the game of basketball. And you know,

898
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 1: for them to have that opportunity, I think it's special,

899
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: especially people like Mac mcclungyy just and he deserved to win.

900
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: He don't get me wrong, I get exactly what you're saying,

901
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: I think, but we get I think sometimes as fans

902
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: we get so caught up in the names and the

903
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: dunk contest. We're not caught up in the art the

904
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: dunk contest, you know, but.

905
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 3: At some point in time your creativity.

906
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 4: I mean, you see some of these guys, what these

907
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 4: and what I mean some of these dunk or YouTube

908
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 4: and then people are like, well, we'll get some of

909
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 4: those guys. But I'm like, at some point in time,

910
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 4: I mean, create you got to run out of creativity, Wheeler,

911
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:01,439
Speaker 4: I mean.

912
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 1: What, hey, all I gotta say is we still making

913
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: new music. Yeah, and new sounds right, and music been

914
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: around longer than basketball, so there's always a possibility to

915
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: have some new tricks.

916
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 4: So you don't have a problem with the props because

917
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 4: a lot of times I don't. I don't know when

918
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 4: really when the props came. Yeah, yeah, they seemed like

919
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 4: now at some point, I mean, Dominique was the power dunker.

920
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 3: Jordan's elevated through the era.

921
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 1: You had Viz Card telling me, ask you this, the

922
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: dunks you've seen now, Yeah, in present day NBA, let's

923
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: just get they way better than what I saw in

924
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: the past.

925
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 4: Okay, Hey, yeah, I mean Zach Levine going through the

926
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 4: free throw line between his legs.

927
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: I still don't think people understand that was the first

928
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: time he's ever tried.

929
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 3: The dunk within the contest.

930
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: Man, Wow, that's the first time he's ever tried dunk.

931
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: Because I actually, I said, Zach, I've never seen you

932
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: even attempted. He's like, honestly, I ran out of dunk,

933
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: so I just went up there and did the first

934
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: thing I could think of. It was the first time

935
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: he's tried it. Wow, He's never like for me to

936
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 1: even say he's practiced it. He could decide I practiced it,

937
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: I missed it. I just said I'm gonna go for it.

938
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: He's ever tried it.

939
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 4: The man tried to dump for the first time in

940
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 4: competition and basically sealed the win because he dump.

941
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: And what a double overtime, double triple overtime in the Duncan's.

942
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 4: Basically, you've had some very you had some characters as teammates.

943
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 4: You had Patrick Beverly, Yes, you've had Jeff t Uh,

944
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 4: you had KG. Yes, who's the funniest teammate you had.

945
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie ants up there?

946
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I forgot it.

947
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: Andre Miller is up there, really, Yes, my rookie year

948
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: Andrew Miller KG. Of course, Jeff Tige. Shout out to

949
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: Jeff Tigue. Man, I'm so happy to see him what

950
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: he's doing. Shout out to Jeff Tigue. Man, I've been

951
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 1: told when we were teammates, he needs to be telling stories.

952
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: He's the best storyteller. And I see now people are

953
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: getting to recognize that. I love that. I love that

954
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: He's always been great at that. Mandlo Delo's up there.

955
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: He's really fun. Wow, Okay, Man, I've been blessed to

956
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: be I've been blessed in a way to be with

957
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: so many teammates and to meet so many people at

958
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: different stages of life, and to be able to be

959
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: able to communicate with them, share energy with them, and

960
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: be able to call them a teammate is a blessing

961
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: and it's an honor that I don't take lightly.

962
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 3: Do you believe that every teammate, a lot.

963
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 4: Of the teammates that you've mentioned, do you believe you've

964
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 4: met them at the appropriate stage of your career? Do

965
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 4: you look back, and says man, Now, if I had

966
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 4: met him a little earlier, that had been perfect. If

967
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 4: I'd met him a little later, that would have been

968
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 4: even better perfect.

969
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,959
Speaker 1: It was perfect for me. I can't go back looking

970
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 1: at this time and that timing, it was the perfect

971
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: timing for me in my life, and I'm happy that

972
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: I had that moment. Whether it be you know, short

973
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: amount of time or years of calling them my teammate,

974
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: it was perfect time. God puts people in your life

975
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: at the perfect time, and I don't I don't doubt that.

976
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: So I was it was the right timing for me.

977
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 2: Uh.

978
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: Whether they helped me grow as a man, helped me

979
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: grow as a player, Uh, it was perfect timing.

980
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 4: One of your former teammates and this was was going around.

981
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 4: He said, there are players right not currently playing in

982
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 4: the NBA. If I gave a helmet and shoulder pass,

983
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 4: they can go make a team.

984
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: I talked about it on the Rich Eisen Show. I

985
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: just said, you know, I don't know, but I can

986
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: tell you right now. If you put me in the

987
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 1: slot receiver and you sent me down in the middle

988
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: with that medicine ball, I ain't doing it. That little

989
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: medical ball going down to the hell.

990
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 3: That's what's gonna happen. No, they gonna saw you at

991
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 3: half cats pass on me. Nothing.

992
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: I would say, I think there's few players who could.

993
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 3: Do what you did.

994
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,439
Speaker 1: Uh, but no one's gonna be sharing as Shaw.

995
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,879
Speaker 4: No, I'm saying right now, you take a guy who's

996
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 4: playing in the NBA, We're gonna give.

997
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 3: Him a pair of help show the path he will

998
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 3: go to training. Can very few of them could do it?

999
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 3: You actually think somebody could make an NFL team right now?

1000
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, You think Lebron can do it?

1001
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 3: Not?

1002
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: No, no, not now, not now though, No, don't take

1003
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: out now.

1004
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 4: No, I don't think. I don't think any guy in

1005
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 4: this I'm talking about right now in his prime. That's

1006
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, no prime, if he had done it,

1007
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 4: and let's just say, for the sake of argumt, Lebron's

1008
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 4: playing basketball and he said, you know what, I'm gonna

1009
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 4: take it off like Michael Jordan say, I'm gonna take

1010
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 4: a year off and I'm gonna try to go play anything.

1011
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 3: To do to major leagut.

1012
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 4: I just think the nuances, the understanding, because I think,

1013
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,720
Speaker 4: like a what's I forget the NC state, the offense,

1014
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 4: the big fellow.

1015
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: Big fellow, big shot, many shot.

1016
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, I think with a year, I think he

1017
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 4: can play offensive line or defensive line.

1018
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta teach him. So you're saying if you

1019
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: give him a year, though, I feel like even for

1020
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: people who may not understand, like I have friends who

1021
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: are offensive line in the NFL. That's a tough job.

1022
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,240
Speaker 1: It comes with a ton of chest.

1023
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 4: Match, yes, because the difference is and I'm not saying

1024
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 4: because I think NBA players, the NBA players are tough.

1025
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 4: But what we do is that we go out there

1026
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 4: every every Sunday or every Monday and cat we try

1027
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 4: to move a man against his will. Just imagine when

1028
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 4: you say I ain't going nowhere and I say the

1029
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 4: hell you not. You're leaving this plot of land today.

1030
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 4: That's what we do every week. We try to run

1031
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 4: through a mofolks. Yes, yes, yes, because football in a sentence,

1032
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 4: is about breaking a man's spirit. It's hard to break them.

1033
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 4: If I'm shooting threes, you're like that coach, I can't

1034
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 4: do nothing. But like sho shot is like everybody's trying

1035
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 4: to be shocked. That's what the NFL is about. Everybody's

1036
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 4: trying to be shocked, especially on the interior. Offensive line

1037
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 4: says I'm going this way, defensive line says I'm going

1038
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 4: that way. I'm trying to push a line back or

1039
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 4: defense of lineman. And I think guys are super talent.

1040
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 4: I think if you took an I think and a

1041
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 4: year two.

1042
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 1: People I give is like Bron and Ant. That comes

1043
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: to my mind first. But I think Ant's played football though, Yes,

1044
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: that's what he grew up. But just like yes, so

1045
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, could I see him doing it?

1046
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 3: Yes? When? How when did they as stop? Did they

1047
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 3: play in high school?

1048
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: I think so? I think so. But he was, he

1049
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: was a good football player. Sure, he plays, he plays,

1050
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: will be throwing the football around at male clinic target.

1051
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 3: He mean he still got I mean he's an athlete.

1052
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 3: I think Russ.

1053
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 4: If you took like Russell Westbrook, I think I think

1054
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 4: Russ with his speed and his understanding.

1055
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: If you amount of power he generates, yes, I think

1056
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: that's yes, that can help him a lot too.

1057
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 4: I think football is a more physical sport. I think

1058
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 4: basketball is a more skill.

1059
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 1: I think it's Yeah. I think that's a good that's

1060
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: a good one. I think I've seen PG himself. He

1061
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: was playing wide receiver and he did a really great like, uh,

1062
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: break out the cut and he looked great. But I

1063
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 1: just I just think I can't I can't fathom for

1064
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: all the NFL dudes who are gonna watch this. I

1065
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: can't fathom what y'all go through on a Sunday and

1066
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: Monday and then look back and say, oh, let's do

1067
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: this again on Thursday. Yeah, you know, like I can't

1068
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: imagine that.

1069
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 4: I tell you what, go to home deep or lows,

1070
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 4: get your hard hat and get get you a nice

1071
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 4: nice coat, okay, and get a line up about ten

1072
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 4: yards from your garage.

1073
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 3: And run into it sixty five times. Yeah, No, I see.

1074
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: That's what Hey, I'm I'm at the point where I'm thinking, like,

1075
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: I go in the game and I jump as OgH

1076
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: as I possibly can to go dunk lay it up. Yeah,

1077
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: and then you know I'll fall on the floor. Yeah,

1078
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: and I fall. All my team is be like, man,

1079
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: why you be falling so hard on the floor. We'd

1080
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: be worried about your safety. And I'm thinking the fact

1081
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: that I do that. I get right up, I start

1082
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: running down the court and I said, hey, I was

1083
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: telling my girl. I said, man, if I trip and

1084
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:53,839
Speaker 1: fall in this house right now, I don't know if

1085
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: I'm getting up, But you telling me in the game

1086
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: to go do it for the love?

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00:48:58,800 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, sixty five times?

1088
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 4: And see, like when you jump up there guys gonna

1089
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 4: do everything they can not to undercut you.

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00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 3: They're gonna try to break your fall that were trying

1091
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 3: to do.

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00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: We try to all that, I see, I've seen it

1093
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,839
Speaker 1: the other way. I ain't seen that they are trying

1094
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 1: to hell nah, let me fall on the floor.

1095
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 3: What what was it like playing for TIBs?

1096
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 4: Because you hear how till like man Tims grind you

1097
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 4: to the I mean, he just words on you playing

1098
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 4: his guy's forty plus minutes on a nightly basis, and

1099
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 4: then when it comes playoff times, he's done ground him

1100
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 4: down to the nubs and then they just.

1101
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 3: Don't have anything. What was it like playing for him?

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00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 3: You know?

1103
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: What I respect is so so much about TIBs is

1104
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: that he wanted to win, and he put the hours

1105
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: in and he put the work in. So playing for

1106
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: Tibbs was just watching someone who truly loves what they

1107
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: do and puts all their passion and their their life

1108
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: missions being the best coach they could be. And you

1109
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: gotta respect that. And I think Tis was a he's

1110
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: a he's a low key funny guy off the court,

1111
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: you know, and you take the basket away. He's really funny,

1112
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: and you know I I appreciate him even more now

1113
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 1: that I'm older, and you know that we've been able

1114
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: to talk even at a different level of maturity.

1115
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 3: You feel me, r.

1116
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: Man, I got nothing but good things to say about him.

1117
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: He's been great, He's been Uh, he's been great to

1118
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,919
Speaker 1: talk to, especially now in my life. And uh, he's

1119
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: he's one hell of a coach. There's one hell of

1120
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: a coach.

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00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 4: Probably the thing that's been talked about most in Minnesota

1122
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 4: is yours and Jimmy Butler's relationship. How could that have

1123
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 4: been handled differently? What could he have done differently? What

1124
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 4: could you have done differently to make that relationship better?

1125
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 4: Where there doesn't seem like it's so much animosity, there's

1126
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 4: so much dissension, so much anks between the two of you.

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00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,720
Speaker 1: I think for me, like I said earlier, just everyone

1128
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: we met each other, all my teammates, we met each

1129
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: other at the perfect time, and I think that we

1130
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 1: both helped each other grow and I think that's what

1131
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: was really appreciative of me. And also we made a

1132
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: playoffs together. Gloss and all the and all the hoopla

1133
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: is that you know, after years and years of not

1134
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: making the playoffs, we finally made the playoffs, and together

1135
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: we were able to do something that Minnesota has a

1136
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: seen in a while. And then on top of that,

1137
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: I'm tremendously thankful that I had the opportunity to have

1138
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: my first playoff experience. You know, you hear so much

1139
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: about it, but to actually go through that experience helped

1140
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: me be a better player and be a better teammate

1141
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: to Ad. So, like I said, I think we all

1142
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: met each other at the perfect time and when we

1143
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,439
Speaker 1: all needed to. God's time is never going to be wrong.

1144
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 4: Had has that situation helped you become a better leader

1145
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 4: and a better teammate.

1146
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 1: I think just that season, you know, just you know,

1147
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 1: having different people, different personalities, and also just different experiences

1148
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: than I never had. Like I said, I never made

1149
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: the playoffs until that year, so I kind of had

1150
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 1: that experience under my belt understand what it is to

1151
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: what it takes me, you know, a playoff team. You know,

1152
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: I think that it helped me tremendously the rest of

1153
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: my career and made me a better man first off,

1154
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: and the second made me a better leader and made

1155
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: me a better player. So, like I said, God's time

1156
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 1: is never wrong. So I met everyone at the right time,

1157
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: perfect time, and for what I needed in my life,

1158
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: and it helped me be a better person and be

1159
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: ready for the next challenges that were coming up.

1160
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 3: Why y'all let Dremond trade.

1161
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: Rudy, Draymond trade choke choke?

1162
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, why y'all let Dramond choke Rudy? Nah?

1163
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: I was that situation happened? So yeah, exactly what led

1164
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: up to it?

1165
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 3: What led up to it?

1166
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, just all of a sudden, one time

1167
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: I'm looking and I'm like looking, I'm seeing Draymond do something.

1168
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 1: Rudy I'm trying to pull Draymond off, and I'm like, well,

1169
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a triple Nelson going on. Abound yourself.

1170
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: I just, you know, I think they have a funny relationship,

1171
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: to say the least, and I think that, uh, that

1172
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 1: was a moment where I was I was surprised that happened.

1173
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, I just I was very surprised that.

1174
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 4: When you were supposed to you were supposed to, like

1175
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 4: he grabbed Rudy, you were supposed to grab him, and

1176
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 4: then it's somebody you four five, don't.

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00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 3: We just have a.

1178
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 7: Just everyone in the full Yeah, Finch coming out. Everybody

1179
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 7: had a good leg too, fence when Finch had a

1180
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 7: good leg, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, that was a That

1181
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 7: was the animosity between dra Mud and Rudy comes.

1182
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: I don't even know.

1183
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 3: Does Raymond feel that.

1184
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:26,840
Speaker 4: Rudy got some defensive play of the years that belonged

1185
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 4: to him.

1186
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, to be honest, I just you know,

1187
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: you always hear the hoop li and we just always

1188
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: we just tuning everything out. Like I said, I was

1189
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: surprised when it happened to we. I feel like everyone

1190
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 1: everyone in there was like, wait, is this really happening

1191
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: right now? And we're all trying to separate Draymond from Rudy,

1192
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: and the whole situation went around.

1193
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 4: It was does Rudy ever say anything? I mean, because

1194
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 4: Rudy hears all the criticism, it's not like a whole lot, but.

1195
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: Everyone we don't know. Rudy Gobert. He laughs about he'd

1196
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: joke around about it. So it's not like he just

1197
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: he's really like salty and he won't like like you know,

1198
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: he gets aggravated. He'll laugh, he lives, he'll joke himself

1199
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: about it. I think it's a It just shows a

1200
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:10,280
Speaker 1: character and also how much he really He just enjoys

1201
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 1: what he does, and he cares about his craft, and

1202
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: he cares about his team, so shows a teammate he

1203
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 1: is too.

1204
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 4: This concludes the first half of my conversation. Part two

1205
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 4: is also posted and you can access it to whichever

1206
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 4: podcast platform you just listen to part one on. Just

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00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 4: simply go back to club profile and I'll see you there.