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Speaker 1: out back to backs. But I will say players are
Speaker 1: starting to think about their future after basketball is.
Speaker 3: Over as well.
Speaker 2: Word but I know Loads word, but I know loan
Speaker 2: management for him has to be something the whole franchise
Speaker 2: got to be thinking about at this point. It got
Speaker 2: me thinking about how long seasons is about to be
Speaker 2: for you as well. This is about to be a
Speaker 2: long season for you, dog.
Speaker 3: So I went.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Word, but I know Load's management for him has to
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Speaker 2: worried about. And then it got me thinking, man, you
Speaker 2: know you ain't what your thirteenth year. You know, I
Speaker 2: gotta be thinking about you, brother. So I went shopping
Speaker 2: yesterday on Amazon and I got to look for you
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Speaker 3: There it is, it's already open. Hey, a massage gun.
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Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: I looked at different options and feel like I ordered
Speaker 2: the right gift for you.
Speaker 3: Got it all right? How fucked up on that? All right? Word? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 3: okay with that? Weren't But it's already open. Oh wait,
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Speaker 2: But I know load manage for him for uh word?
Speaker 2: But I know load management for him has to be
Speaker 2: something the whole franchise has been thinking about. And it
Speaker 2: has me thinking about you, Drey. It got me thinking,
Speaker 2: you know, this is a long season and for you.
Speaker 2: I had to go shopping yesterday on Amazon. I looked
Speaker 2: at different options and I feel like I ordered the
Speaker 2: right thing for you, brother, You have the right gift
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 3: There it is already. Oh hey, a massage gun.
Speaker 1: This is clutch for anyone who travels a lot, and
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Speaker 3: See I'm looking out for my dog. I appreciate it. Man.
Speaker 3: You know them back to them back to backs. They
Speaker 3: are tough. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I understand where older players are coming from when they
Speaker 1: say when they say, yo, you need to play back
Speaker 1: to the backs.
Speaker 3: There's no such thing as low management. We have X
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Speaker 1: and their bodies are broken down later in life. And
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Speaker 1: the science whereas they didn't have that back in the day.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's a couple of things rearing his
Speaker 1: ugly head. But yet I think there's valid points for
Speaker 1: both sides. I agree, man.
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Speaker 2: I play, they had a massage gun and it was
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Speaker 3: B Day. What to do? What you're doing with my brother?
Speaker 3: What's up a big dog? How you feeling? I feel great, brother? Uh,
Speaker 3: disappointed and lost last week, but we'll get into that.
Speaker 3: If I got something over the weekend, I see you, tweeted.
Speaker 1: Just ran into at JJ Reddick at the car wash.
Speaker 1: He had the livetop watching film players coach Lakers in
Speaker 1: great hands hashtag dedication.
Speaker 3: Talk to me about this, like, like, what are you
Speaker 3: thinking when you run to the station.
Speaker 2: You know, bro, it's a casual Saturday. You know you're
Speaker 2: doing parents stuff. You that's your day off. You know
Speaker 2: what I mean? You probably coming off of back to back.
Speaker 2: You know, we all in the same, you know, J
Speaker 2: we all in the same neighborhood. Our kids play at
Speaker 2: the park, and so I was going to get my
Speaker 2: car washed, and me and my kids went and got
Speaker 2: some lunch. I come back from the car wash, I
Speaker 2: see JJ Redd and he run up on me.
Speaker 3: What's up, BD, what's up? Jj? I look over there.
Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, bro, you over here. You getting it in? Uh?
Speaker 3: You're working. He's like, man, I ain't playing around. And
Speaker 3: we sat there.
Speaker 2: We had a conversation about just him the team, and
Speaker 2: I was telling him, like, yo, bro, your personality on
Speaker 2: this team gives him real leadership. And he was just
Speaker 2: talking about like you know, looking at breaking down film,
Speaker 2: but talking about the game, and it's he's one of
Speaker 2: those dudes you can talk basketball all day, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. And you know, I got excited because
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's like talking to one of your
Speaker 2: peers as a coach, and you're like, man, I want
Speaker 2: you to win so bad because you know what the
Speaker 2: fuck you're talking about, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 2: and and you gonna get these dudes to play like
Speaker 2: he talking about all other players, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: He talking about you know, that's that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: He talking about the You know, absolutely bron gonna do
Speaker 1: what he's do. You know that a D a D now,
Speaker 1: We all know how special a D is. But a
Speaker 1: D right now is playing at the level that everyone
Speaker 1: has kind of hoped and thought that he would play
Speaker 1: at for many years.
Speaker 3: The way he's dominating right now is unlike an ad
Speaker 3: We Tarver sitting in my opinion, and I think that
Speaker 3: that does have You know that that does have a
Speaker 3: lot to do with coaching.
Speaker 1: I think coaching has you know, one of the biggest
Speaker 1: roles for a coach is you're one of two things.
Speaker 3: You're even either a confidence giver or you're a confidence taker.
Speaker 3: And what it's looking like with not only a D,
Speaker 3: but with.
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, Austin Reeves d D Low hasn't played this great,
Speaker 1: But what it's looking like with those other guys is
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 3: They have confidence and they have a belief in themselves.
Speaker 3: And man, when you got that type of confidence and
Speaker 3: you're getting that from the coast, it.
Speaker 2: Goes a long way, especially in the league right because
Speaker 2: everybody can play and a lot of it is like
Speaker 2: I don't think fans or people really understand it's all
Speaker 2: and tangibles, right am I playing do I got confidence
Speaker 2: on working out? Like people when people say basketball is
Speaker 2: a mental game, it's all the mental components of the
Speaker 2: things you have to have, like some mental fortitude, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like I'm really good, I'm sitting
Speaker 2: on the bench, you know what I mean, I'm losing
Speaker 2: my like. So having a coach believe in you and
Speaker 2: letting you go out and hoop the way you know
Speaker 2: how to hoop, bro, that that turns you into a
Speaker 2: whole different species, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 2: think I'm we're seeing that, you know from the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I think you know when y'all had to run you
Speaker 2: you knew that, Like you already knew who you was
Speaker 2: coming to the game, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 2: you can do anything. You can make adjustments on the fly.
Speaker 2: So that type of confidence, right allows you to be
Speaker 2: a real, real basketball player, you feel, and not a
Speaker 2: system player.
Speaker 3: That's a fact, said, I agree. So they looking good.
Speaker 3: We'll see you know how it continues as we move forward,
Speaker 3: because one thing I do think is if they're going
Speaker 3: to continue to play out a high level, they are
Speaker 3: going to need a better dal for sure, Like d
Speaker 3: low or his shot making ability, his scoring ability. They're
Speaker 3: going to need him to play at a high level.
Speaker 3: And some of his interviews I saw early was kind
Speaker 3: of like a little I turn it, I catch you.
Speaker 3: You know. It was like you couldn't kind of tell
Speaker 3: whether he was.
Speaker 1: Over it or pull them. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So which way they turned him I think will be
Speaker 1: ultimately will be important as teams get into the season.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody start to get to, you know, a
Speaker 1: position of where they know what's going on, conditioning levels,
Speaker 1: all the stuff, and everybody's clicking. As you get into
Speaker 1: the season, you're going to need a better d LO.
Speaker 1: So I think that's something to watch for. But I
Speaker 1: think they are doing well. But I got one for you.
Speaker 3: I got another one for you. So a lot a
Speaker 3: lot of people talking about this one from your your era,
Speaker 3: although I did play against D two number one. First,
Speaker 3: I want to say congratulations to.
Speaker 2: Day, Congratulations to Flash my dog.
Speaker 3: That's my dog.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I think like to get a statue man
Speaker 1: like that, to get your jersey retired is one thing
Speaker 1: like That's that's incredible.
Speaker 3: It's great to get a statue like another level, Bro
Speaker 3: you're not going to.
Speaker 1: That's a totally now immortalized you know, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Number one. Like I said, congrats to him, but we must.
Speaker 1: What was your first thoughts when you saw the statue?
Speaker 3: People?
Speaker 1: You know, people are making a lot of body d
Speaker 1: Wade said, who is that? Guy?
Speaker 3: Man? Your thoughts?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: First of all, First of all, I want to echo
Speaker 2: let you say.
Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Flash Hall of Famer Olympian, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: NBA champ uh.
Speaker 3: You know, to have have.
Speaker 2: Your jersey retired to be immortalized in the statue, you know, incredible,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Probably emotional day all the
Speaker 2: people out there and shout out to the Miami Heat
Speaker 2: organization because they just always.
Speaker 3: You know, do it right.
Speaker 4: Until until they picked a person to design the statue.
Speaker 2: I got some jokes because I felt she was gonna
Speaker 2: a me this. I said, why did they give d
Speaker 2: Way a team move statue? When he said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when he said who is it? I was like, man,
Speaker 3: who is that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Hey? Bro? Who is that? Who is that? Hey?
Speaker 2: I would like to make an announcement right now to
Speaker 2: anybody retiring or anybody picking another statue, please consult with
Speaker 2: Baron Davis Enterprises on how how to approve and design
Speaker 2: a statue. Come on, dude, I mean, come on, dog,
Speaker 2: we back check this out.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 2: Look how they did Iverson in Philly, and now look
Speaker 2: how they do it like this big huh.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe a statue they had.
Speaker 2: They gave a an Oscar an Oscar trophy.
Speaker 3: Come on, dude, that's the answer, yo.
Speaker 1: So check this out. Check this out. I saw pictures
Speaker 1: of d Wade viewing the statue face it's actually I
Speaker 1: think it was on Rachel Nichols page if d Wade
Speaker 1: viewing the statue, and I must say, the mock up
Speaker 1: of his face looks absolutely nothing like the statue turned out.
Speaker 1: So everybody's like, oh, d Wade saw at first, like
Speaker 1: he know, he saw, he approved it, But the mock
Speaker 1: up of his face before the turnout, it looked like
Speaker 1: d Wade. Afterwards it looked like Tim Thomas.
Speaker 3: I don't quite.
Speaker 1: Understand how it ended up that way. But my thing
Speaker 1: is like, don't they show the statue to maybe someone
Speaker 1: like pat Riley, like when it's complete, before they just
Speaker 1: unveiled and everybody like, oh, yo, who is that guy?
Speaker 1: I just and then and then another one is the
Speaker 1: then the the guy who made the statue comes out
Speaker 1: today with a statement saying it is not for all
Speaker 1: humans to understand, it's not for all human activity or
Speaker 1: something of that nature.
Speaker 3: And I'm just like, yo, you can't come out.
Speaker 2: And then that hey, you know what, it was one
Speaker 2: person that came out and agree with your statute.
Speaker 3: Facebook, Come on, you got this is what I think.
Speaker 2: I think they were like, yo, d Way, we need
Speaker 2: you to pose for this statue. And you know how
Speaker 2: busy is He's like, man, I ain't got all all
Speaker 2: day and this ship was taken all day. So he
Speaker 2: called his cousin and say, hey, man, so you think
Speaker 2: it could be his cousin. He was like, man, I'm
Speaker 2: tired of this ship. He doesn't stand in And the
Speaker 2: artist didn't know if it was d Wade or the
Speaker 2: cousin Dshaun Wade, damn man, shout.
Speaker 3: Out to this way man. We love you, bro, We
Speaker 3: love you bro. It's just no butler. I actually saw
Speaker 3: the Wade last week. Man.
Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure just to see d Wade, to
Speaker 1: be in his presages. But you got can they like,
Speaker 1: we gotta do something we got.
Speaker 3: To do something.
Speaker 2: We gotta do something because like think about like twenty
Speaker 2: years from now, you know what I mean, Like he
Speaker 2: gonna be like, yo, like here's my statue, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, And your grandkid's gonna be like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: knock it off.
Speaker 3: He looked twenty years older in the statue right now. Man, hey, hey,
Speaker 3: hire me.
Speaker 2: To find the artists to create art or statues to
Speaker 2: represent these legends.
Speaker 3: Lauren Hawsey, I'm not this artists. He'd be great at it.
Speaker 2: I'm not dissing the artists or nothing, because I understand
Speaker 2: art I understand artists.
Speaker 3: Tree, but.
Speaker 2: When you do sculptures of people, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: you're gonna face the most backlash because we know what
Speaker 2: d Wade look like, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 2: so we want.
Speaker 5: To see we want to see a d Way statue,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? Yeah, all right, that's the fact.
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 3: I hope they can like twist the head off to
Speaker 3: like change it out or something, because our paint like
Speaker 3: a hologram on the face, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like it's like maybe something, use some AI, a three
Speaker 3: D printer something. We got too many things today. This
Speaker 3: must be correct. This must be correct.
Speaker 2: Uh, he gonna be buy my statue Duck and his
Speaker 2: ship like that.
Speaker 3: Ain't me. I ain't gonna get in a statue. So
Speaker 3: I'm here.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make my own ship put outside my granny house.
Speaker 2: But now with that artist right in the hood. Now
Speaker 2: with that grandiated, that's like the homie. That's like the hommie. Like, hey, bro,
Speaker 2: let me make a statue.
Speaker 3: For you in the front of grannyhouse.
Speaker 1: D Wade, these are jokes, man, Well you all, d Wade,
Speaker 1: that's one boy man.
Speaker 2: The way be on my next season. The WTF bearon Davis?
Speaker 2: So he already know I love you, bro. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: congratulations out. That's a that's amazing way you coning.
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Speaker 2: Man, it looked like our boys Steph will be reevaluated.
Speaker 2: On Friday, he had an ankle injury against the Clippers.
Speaker 3: Now with him missing the next two games.
Speaker 2: I think you know it helps, But how do you
Speaker 2: feel that changes your game.
Speaker 3: With Steph not being there you know early on this season? Uh,
Speaker 3: gotta be more aggressive for sure. I think you know,
Speaker 3: you gotta find I mean number one, it was very
Speaker 3: uplifting and refreshing to see him walking today, absolutely, because
Speaker 3: he's walking pretty good. Uh So I thought that was
Speaker 3: that was good to see. Gives you a little more
Speaker 3: hope than what what you initially had when I saw
Speaker 3: him leader floor. Uh So that was good.
Speaker 1: I think for me, Uh, obviously have to be more aggressive,
Speaker 1: try to find different spots to score. Got to get
Speaker 1: up out that corner, and then I'll probably handle the
Speaker 1: ball more, you know, be being more of a decision
Speaker 1: making and more of a decision making role. But it's
Speaker 1: interesting because you know, I don't really know what that
Speaker 1: intels today because we're kind of running an entirely different offense.
Speaker 1: You know, so in a normal world where you know
Speaker 1: the offense that we've been running for the last ten years,
Speaker 1: llion years, I know exactly what that looks like.
Speaker 3: But we're kind of running a different offense this year,
Speaker 3: and so it's hard for me to say currently what
Speaker 3: that'll look like for you. But I imagine that. You know,
Speaker 3: shots will come in different areas because the gravity that
Speaker 3: Steph pulls it won't be there, so you'll probably find
Speaker 3: shots in different areas than normal. So just got to
Speaker 3: be aggressive and willing to take those shots because with
Speaker 3: all the stuff on the floor, the first open shot
Speaker 3: you get is probably going to be the best shot
Speaker 3: that you're going to get throughout that possession, as opposed
Speaker 3: to you get an open shot with Steph on the floor,
Speaker 3: you still something else still going to open up once
Speaker 3: he started moving, because he just draws so much attention.
Speaker 2: I've been watching the way y'all play too, and I
Speaker 2: think you can take more opportunities to just get more points,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's like especially like posting up,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, So like the way I
Speaker 2: was looking at it is like, man, this should help you.
Speaker 2: It should help the young guys right and start figuring out,
Speaker 2: like oh shit, let me start getting back in the
Speaker 2: post because ain't nobody posting up, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And like shit, you got post work, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? You got you got post work. So it's
Speaker 2: like it could be and then also like now step out.
Speaker 2: Now you back to secondary push pace, push, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, moving the ball, cutting like all that
Speaker 2: little murkiness you know, with the intelligence. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get to the free throw line. Okay, we can slow
Speaker 2: the game down. Like I think with youall new offense
Speaker 2: and with these young guys, like it's gonna be like it.
Speaker 3: It should open something up.
Speaker 2: So when stuff come back, when other people like the gravity,
Speaker 2: like you say, the gravity he pulled, it's almost like damn,
Speaker 2: like pick your poison, you know what I mean, Pick
Speaker 2: your poison. So I like that, man. And there was
Speaker 2: a moment I think, so there was a moment in
Speaker 2: the Clippers game when Stephi you collided. You came up
Speaker 2: hoppling after that. Has something like that ever happened to
Speaker 2: you in the thirteen years?
Speaker 3: Listen? Man, what'd you say?
Speaker 2: No, it's a question, Oh my god, my dog?
Speaker 3: What what are you and Steph doing that? There?
Speaker 8: I relaxed, relaxed, man, Yo, that was shure hurts I
Speaker 8: give him he bro I in thirteen years? Have you
Speaker 8: have you witness?
Speaker 3: Bro? He came up to me after like, yo, you
Speaker 3: are I.
Speaker 1: Kind of read it and tell you I'm like, you
Speaker 1: think you're ready to me, and that's how you trying
Speaker 1: to hop out the way.
Speaker 3: Edit that out. I saw you trying to hop out
Speaker 3: the way, but I kind of read it to you. You good.
Speaker 3: Oh that was so funny. Yeah, I'm all right. I
Speaker 3: hurt bro.
Speaker 1: I still feel the residual effect of that. By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't go away just right away. That was crazy. No,
Speaker 1: I haven't ever had anything like that.
Speaker 3: Have it for me? Oh oh man, oh man, listen,
Speaker 3: let's move on. That was crazy. Ah man, that was
Speaker 3: you know what I'm not I'm not going to discuss this. Listen, man,
Speaker 3: We're moving on. We got back to back, coming up
Speaker 3: against the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: Obviously, everything becomes stuff tougher with stuff out, but not
Speaker 1: only is Steph out.
Speaker 3: You got wigs out. You got damn them ol now.
Speaker 1: And so you know, it's crazy because we're going to
Speaker 1: last night, and it's just crazy. The NBA, Man, it
Speaker 1: changes everything, as you know, man, it changes so fast.
Speaker 1: And so you're going into last yesterday and just won
Speaker 1: two games by seventy seven points.
Speaker 3: Started season combined.
Speaker 1: Feeling good looking at the home stretch where you like,
Speaker 1: all right, we got the Clippers coming in.
Speaker 3: Then we got the Pelicans coming in twice.
Speaker 1: You know you're looking at that, You're like, yo, we
Speaker 1: could possibly start four one, five and oh, which is
Speaker 1: a great start.
Speaker 3: You let one get away yesterday that you know they
Speaker 3: just came up. They punched us in the mouth. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they punched us in the mouth. Uh.
Speaker 1: They defend the great. They were really good offensively. They
Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on the rim getting downhill.
Speaker 1: You know, Derrick Jones Junior hit three threes like they
Speaker 1: had guys making shots. They played well, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you lose that one. But not only do
Speaker 1: you lose that one again, just how quick stuff shame
Speaker 1: you got those three guys out now and with a
Speaker 1: tough back to back coming up, So not only are
Speaker 1: you losing some of the depth which we spoke about,
Speaker 1: but you're going into a back of back to back
Speaker 1: and losing that depth, and so it just makes things
Speaker 1: a lot tougher and just shows you how fast stuff
Speaker 1: can change in this league all of a sudden, Like
Speaker 1: I said, you're looking like, yo, we could possibly start
Speaker 1: four one, oh, and then you face with these injuries, man,
Speaker 1: and it's just crazy just looking at.
Speaker 3: You when you're looking at the schedule.
Speaker 2: I remember I used to look at the schedule month
Speaker 2: to month and say, damn, he's gonna be the tough ones.
Speaker 2: These are the ones we have to get, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? And then this is a rubber game,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Yeah, And so when you
Speaker 2: got injuries and you know, you get a hard fuck
Speaker 2: game like the Clippers, Like, damn, you know we was rolling,
Speaker 2: We got caught up. Now you got Zion coming in,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, and we got to slow him down,
Speaker 1: like Zion. Zion is a very tough, tough cover man
Speaker 1: because he Zion is like Zion is like a linebacker
Speaker 1: who's like you can't run the ball against him, or
Speaker 1: like a running back who's just constantly putting pressure on
Speaker 1: on your front seven. He always puts pressure on the rim,
Speaker 1: like at all times, he's putting pressure on the rim,
Speaker 1: which which reminds me a lot of Blake Griffith when
Speaker 1: I was playing Blake, when I was playing Blake during
Speaker 1: you know them years when he was with the Clippers,
Speaker 1: always putting pressure on the rim. Always a lot of
Speaker 1: four strong as hell and like you can do what
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 3: They're putting their head down to get to the rim.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's just a matter of you like
Speaker 1: trying at the file, trying to make him make tough shots,
Speaker 1: and then trying to keep a body in front of him,
Speaker 1: understanding your distance to the rim, because ultimately you got
Speaker 1: to know once that once both of those guys are
Speaker 1: inside the free throws at that point, DELI just jump
Speaker 1: and once they jump.
Speaker 3: There's nothing you can do, like they're gonna figure it
Speaker 3: out in the air because they got that type of bounce.
Speaker 3: And so slowing down Zion is tough, uh, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know, one of the ways that you try
Speaker 1: to slow Zion down is not always defensively, it's in
Speaker 1: putting him in action on the defensive end because you
Speaker 1: don't want him getting the rest on that end. And
Speaker 1: with Steph out again, that's another one of those things
Speaker 1: that makes it tougher to kind of bring him into
Speaker 1: the action and also try to wear him down on
Speaker 1: the other end as well. So you know, it creates
Speaker 1: it creates a lot of issues, but nonetheless it starts
Speaker 1: with doing the job on Zion, which will have to
Speaker 1: try to slow him down in order to try to
Speaker 1: stagnate their offense.
Speaker 2: I agree he's and like I think with him and Blake,
Speaker 2: you know, the difference is he brings the ball up.
Speaker 3: The court, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, I like how to you. I wish like
Speaker 2: Vinnie del Nigger would have used Blake like my boy
Speaker 2: Willie Green is using Zion as like a playmaker, initiate
Speaker 2: the offense, move him around.
Speaker 3: But I do think you know, there's a gift and
Speaker 3: a curse with.
Speaker 2: That, right because Zion, for how he's built, he's downhill downhill, downhill, downhill.
Speaker 2: And you know, I always say this about bigger guys.
Speaker 2: It's like when you play a guard game and you
Speaker 2: move like a guard, you're susceptible, right, and prone to
Speaker 2: more injuries, right because you're cutting, trying.
Speaker 3: To be finessed.
Speaker 2: And like with a dude like that, he coming downhill,
Speaker 2: people getting in his way, right is.
Speaker 3: And like his cutting, the way he moved is just
Speaker 3: it just.
Speaker 2: Put a lot of wear and tear on it on
Speaker 2: him and put a lot of fatigue. So in a
Speaker 2: situation like that, you gotta put him in picking rolls.
Speaker 2: You gotta post him up because he puts the ball
Speaker 2: up two or three times, go to the Oh he
Speaker 2: gonna follow on the other end, right, and so you.
Speaker 3: Got to play that. You gotta play that kind.
Speaker 2: Of like that game and stay in front of him
Speaker 2: and ground him as much as.
Speaker 3: You can, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I used to see Blake like I used to tell Blake, like, yo, Bro,
Speaker 2: if you got space, I'm just gonna throw the ball up.
Speaker 2: I don't even care because can't nobody get get vertical
Speaker 2: faster than you can, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: But I do think.
Speaker 2: You can stifflem because you know why I'm picking you, bro.
Speaker 2: You're my front runner for Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 2: and I'm about to lead a campaign throughout the season, right,
Speaker 2: and so I want to share with our fans some
Speaker 2: impressive stats to start. My guy, Jmon Green on my
Speaker 2: fantasy sleeper app is holding opponents to just twenty nine
Speaker 2: point six percent shooting through three games this season.
Speaker 3: Now, I hope I hope you get I hope you
Speaker 3: get points for defense because my two, two and five
Speaker 3: not serve you well.
Speaker 2: Last night, you dog, I was I'll take the L.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, I take the L.
Speaker 1: I'm a bounce back man. I gotta I gotta give
Speaker 1: myself up out of that corner. I'm a bounce back
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: All that with the defensive Player of the Year, You
Speaker 2: know what I mean, I need I need that, Like
Speaker 2: we gotta get the boards.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, we gotta we gotta up that.
Speaker 3: We gotta up to Anny on that. Like you a D.
Speaker 2: I got you because I think your team is going
Speaker 2: to be a great defensive team and you're gonna be
Speaker 2: a different type of anchor in than a D. So
Speaker 2: I got you, n a D defensive player, but I'm
Speaker 2: campaigning for you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that, Bro.
Speaker 1: I think we definitely got a chance to be a really,
Speaker 1: really really good defensive team. Obviously that starts with me
Speaker 1: as the anchor of the defense, and so I'm really
Speaker 1: locked in on that end. Man, I think, uh.
Speaker 3: And then you know, seeing a D and what he's doing,
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, heyd he need to stop talking about
Speaker 3: defensive Player of the Year and go put himself in
Speaker 3: that V category with JT. Man. Come on, man, going
Speaker 3: away from over here? Man over there, what you're doing? Man,
Speaker 3: go ahead over there? You know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 3: now I'm locked in though, I think uh. And then
Speaker 3: also we got uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we brought in Jerry Stackhouse and Stack is
Speaker 1: coaching the defense, and Stack got everybody locked in. He
Speaker 1: like grade everything you do every game, and so there's
Speaker 1: a level of it, there's a level of accountability.
Speaker 3: And last night, man, he had my grade low and
Speaker 3: I'm like Stack, and he showed he showed a couple
Speaker 3: of the clips of what he said I did wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yo, Stack, I can't leave Zubosh's body right
Speaker 3: there and trapped that box with Jane is coming down here.
Speaker 3: I got to meet James at the rim. If I
Speaker 3: leave you early, that's a lot. And he's like, nah,
Speaker 3: ways can get them, Like nah, Stack Wiggs can't get
Speaker 3: in front of Zubox that tight of rim if I
Speaker 3: leave early. But what I can do is meet James
Speaker 3: at the rim. And then there was another one that
Speaker 3: he deemed me over.
Speaker 1: And I saw the clip and I'm like, he like Dramond,
Speaker 1: no box out, like no box out.
Speaker 2: My man is shooting the ball. That's not my man
Speaker 2: getting the rebound. No box out, and so.
Speaker 1: On, And he's brought a couple like different things like
Speaker 1: as you know, just about everybody in the NBA do
Speaker 1: the same thing. Defensively Stack coming back from college, he
Speaker 1: brought a couple of different things that he wanted to incorporate,
Speaker 1: and I think it's really ultimately going to help our
Speaker 1: defense a lot. So having someone like that to hold
Speaker 1: you accountable, like he's holding us accountable and make you
Speaker 1: feel like y'all want to do this, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying now?
Speaker 3: He was just necessarily for myself. He Sack is one
Speaker 3: of the ones, bro.
Speaker 2: He you know, as a player, you know, as a VET,
Speaker 2: as a coach, as an og. You talk about somebody
Speaker 2: who love the game, Bro, It's like it'd be a
Speaker 2: different level when they love that game, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, When they know the game and love the game.
Speaker 2: That's you know, I'm just a fan now. Just all
Speaker 2: my all my dogs and my air they coaching and
Speaker 2: ship and like they coming back and like they're giving
Speaker 2: y'all something, you know what I mean, because that's what
Speaker 2: I've been waiting for.
Speaker 3: Like we need the Stacks, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: We need Rico Hines, We need Earl Watsons and and
Speaker 2: JJ Reddicks and you know what I mean, we need
Speaker 2: all these dudes around, you know, Willie Green's. We need
Speaker 2: these dudes because they got they connected, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, they connected and they can challenge you.
Speaker 3: Man. Shout out to stack Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sir og stack Man. It's been it's been great
Speaker 1: having him around. I always like, you know, he reminds
Speaker 1: me of my uncle, Benny. I'm gonna bring my uncle here.
Speaker 3: They sounded like they act like they got a seriousness
Speaker 3: to them. You know, he reminds me so much of
Speaker 3: my uncle. So it's been great having stack around.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: So I think that's gonna ball well for us, and
Speaker 3: it's definitely helping me. But in in other news, we're
Speaker 3: gonna move around to move around the league. Okay, mm hm,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, let me ask him that. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: m hm.
Speaker 2: Now, you know we gotta talk who you keep saying
Speaker 2: I gotta give myself out the corner. I know what
Speaker 2: that means, right, Explain to our fans what do you mean?
Speaker 2: Because you keep saying I gotta give myself. I know,
Speaker 2: I gotta get myself out the corner.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: So coming into the season, like I said, we've kind
Speaker 1: of been running a different style of offense, and the
Speaker 1: spot of the offense that I'm in is just it's
Speaker 1: in the corner. As players, when you're adjusting to a
Speaker 1: new offense, initially you just go to your spot, right,
Speaker 1: Like you haven't figured out the loop holes in the
Speaker 1: offense where you can find different space, how to find
Speaker 1: that space, And so for these first three games, I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of in the corner and I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: know where those spots are yet. Like I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out where I can find my way out
Speaker 1: of the corner and not mess up the space at right,
Speaker 1: Like you incorporate our offense. Everybody got their spots. That's cool,
Speaker 1: but then as players, it's on us to then figure
Speaker 1: out out like all right, like where can I find
Speaker 1: my spots? You know what I'm saying within this offense
Speaker 1: to where I'm not in steps way or I'm not
Speaker 1: in uh Wiggs way, but yet I'm putting myself in
Speaker 1: a position to be successful as well. I've never really
Speaker 1: been that successful out of the corner because I've never
Speaker 1: really except for my rookie year, I've never really operated
Speaker 1: out of the corner, and so new terrain just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out that spacing and how I can find
Speaker 1: my spots and where I can go to get out
Speaker 1: the corner and not bunched the offense up and so, uh,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the challenge for me, and it's no,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a challenge, but just trying.
Speaker 3: To figure it out.
Speaker 2: And I would say, like the way I translated it
Speaker 2: was like, damn, I'm stuck in the corner like I'm
Speaker 2: flat foot, you feel what I'm saying. So like getting
Speaker 2: comfortable is really like, Okay, I know I'm gonna be here.
Speaker 2: I gotta get my puppies moving. So it's a shot,
Speaker 2: it's a move. It's supposed you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: and then being able to but sometimes it's like because like, uh,
Speaker 2: it'd be a new offense.
Speaker 3: You like, damn, what do I do now? You know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 2: And basketball is way faster than that, So I think
Speaker 2: you know, as you know, just talking to the fans,
Speaker 2: as you get more comfortable in the offense, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, it's also just getting comfortable in the
Speaker 2: corner and realizing that I don't have to stand here.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be. I can't be stuck here, like.
Speaker 2: I gotta try some ship too, because early in the season,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So for someone like you was just trying to just
Speaker 3: like you.
Speaker 2: But what makes you, what makes you so great is
Speaker 2: a lot of young guys and a lot.
Speaker 3: Of players will try to force action.
Speaker 2: M like, hey, I'm not involved, like for sure, instead
Speaker 2: of figuring out, you know what I mean, Great players
Speaker 2: take chances and then they figure out their space and
Speaker 2: where they comfortable, and then they start building towards that.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. So I think, So that's
Speaker 3: that's where I'm at. That's a great translation. I like it.
Speaker 3: That's exactly where I'm at with it. But that's why
Speaker 3: I was so and I know, like I got to
Speaker 3: figure it out. But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: With a post with the posting crashing weeks side, like
Speaker 2: like I see it, you know what I mean, The fadeaways,
Speaker 2: the three choice shot, the pumping the pump fake, you know,
Speaker 2: getting to like baseline, getting to the middle baby hook,
Speaker 2: you know, like putting pressure on the defense from like
Speaker 2: I can see it, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 2: a lot of times it's like with the new office,
Speaker 2: everybody is learning how to figure each other out, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And basketball is a very basketball is a very instant,
Speaker 1: actual game, and right now I can't say that I'm
Speaker 1: playing off instincts because you're trying to just figure out
Speaker 1: kind of the nuances, and so got to find a
Speaker 1: way to speed that up to where it becomes instinctial.
Speaker 1: Because when I'm playing off my instincts, you know, the
Speaker 1: one thing I trust is I trust my instincts.
Speaker 3: I trust my brain. I know what's going on in
Speaker 3: the basketball court. So just got to find a way
Speaker 3: to make it more instinctial. And that's what I mean
Speaker 3: by getting myself out of that corner. That's what I'm
Speaker 3: talking about. Let's get up. But let's get up about that.
Speaker 3: In other ways.
Speaker 1: We're gonna move around this league. Man, Let's move around
Speaker 1: this league. Obviously, the good guys are no longer undefeated.
Speaker 1: I would ask you who, who who do you got
Speaker 1: as the best undefeated team left? You got the Thunder,
Speaker 1: you got Celtic, you got the Lakers, you got the Calves.
Speaker 1: Who is your best team?
Speaker 3: Or I wouldn't even say best, because I think the best.
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to say Celtics Lakers, team that you're most
Speaker 1: excited about in that bunch.
Speaker 2: I said the Lakers, Uh, because I just think they
Speaker 2: got they gotta, they gotta, they got and they are
Speaker 2: one establishing an identity, which like we don't know what
Speaker 2: the identity of the Lakers have been, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, since the bubble or whatnot, But the Lakers
Speaker 2: never really had an identity outside of like it's Lebron's team.
Speaker 3: Now they're back to being the Lakers. I like OKC.
Speaker 2: Because they probably have the most talent of any team
Speaker 2: in the league, you know what I mean. And those
Speaker 2: young dudes are highly skilled basketball players and they just
Speaker 2: gotta get mean, you know what. And I think by
Speaker 2: them losing it in the playoffs last year, getting punched up,
Speaker 2: like they got a little bit more confidence, you know,
Speaker 2: uh to go with it. And then the Celtics, you know,
Speaker 2: defending channels Cleveland. You know, I like what they putting together.
Speaker 2: But I don't think that Cleveland is I don't think
Speaker 2: they wanted the best, you know, I think they would
Speaker 2: be the weaker out of the four. But they played
Speaker 2: some great basketball and they you know, they got a
Speaker 2: good system they got at you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: they got a better system. But if Darius Garland and
Speaker 2: Mitchell if they can if they can sink like they
Speaker 2: was that one year when they were both all stars.
Speaker 3: They could be dangerous.
Speaker 1: They can I think uh. I think okay Se definitely
Speaker 1: has some special talent. Shae Gibbs Alexander is one of
Speaker 1: the best players in the league, and I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anyone that you can find and debate that.
Speaker 3: I think he's going to put himself in that MVP.
Speaker 3: Cateegory uh possibly could beete for possibly come home with it.
Speaker 1: And they got a lot of for Jalen Williams game
Speaker 1: special check Holmgren special.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The one thing I would say about them is there's
Speaker 1: a certain readiness when you're ready to win. And I
Speaker 1: don't care how old you are. I won my first
Speaker 1: championship and my third year. Steph's six year plays fourth year.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 3: We used to joke.
Speaker 1: Around, we will pour uh, we will pour water on
Speaker 1: the guy's head and and you know, we will pour
Speaker 1: water on the guys had every now and then and
Speaker 1: after the game. And we would do little stuff like
Speaker 1: that every now and then, not every time. But the
Speaker 1: one thing I see with the OKC team that is
Speaker 1: a little alarming for me is like their post games,
Speaker 1: like seven guys in the interview, like there's a certain
Speaker 1: seriousness that it takes to win in this league.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 1: There's a certain fear you have to instill in a
Speaker 1: team in teams in order to win, and I just
Speaker 1: don't know if they're instill in that fearing teams with
Speaker 1: all the bromance and stuff after the game, like Broll
Speaker 1: we all the bros is to He's like, that's cool.
Speaker 1: There's a time and a place for that. But after
Speaker 1: every time somebody's in the interview, you got seven guys,
Speaker 1: eight guys. Then you got the same seven eight guys
Speaker 1: with a picture with Josh Giddy right after they play,
Speaker 1: Like again, I'm all for having fun, Like it's an
Speaker 1: eighty two game season, you should have fun, but you
Speaker 1: also have to understand what people people watching are looking
Speaker 1: at you to be the team, and you have to
Speaker 1: understand when your moment is and right now, I don't
Speaker 1: know if Okac understands, but their moment is now. At
Speaker 1: their moment started last year. You go out, you had
Speaker 1: that great regular season, Your clock starts. Now you're no
Speaker 1: longer the team that's just building through the draft. You've arrived.
Speaker 1: It is now time for you to take that next step.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure that they quite understand everything that
Speaker 1: that tells you know, they understand to play them them boys,
Speaker 1: specially like they get out there.
Speaker 3: But it's another level too.
Speaker 2: They gotta get they gotta get two more levels to
Speaker 2: get to the championship.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So it's it's when I'm watching that and and you
Speaker 2: know I'm in your conference and were about to play
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. If if I if I think you soft,
Speaker 2: I'm not there there is there's no fear. Yes, I'm
Speaker 2: not a sious, I'm not. I'm like, oh bro, I'm
Speaker 2: going right at these dudes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And so you know all that like the fun and
Speaker 2: games is fun, like it's doumb seeing them, but there's
Speaker 2: also like they got to mature a little bit and
Speaker 2: become more professional so the stars can be the stars,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like at the start the interviews,
Speaker 2: be the stars, you know what I mean, And like
Speaker 2: let's start getting this pecking order right, because when the
Speaker 2: playoffs come, you know, and everybody buddy, buddy, and everybody
Speaker 2: in panic, well that mean anybody shoot shoot the shot,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. That's how they got bottled
Speaker 2: up last year exactly.
Speaker 3: And you got to think about it like even like
Speaker 3: like you said the stars being stars Shay Gilgers Alexander.
Speaker 3: Shae is on the verge of becoming like a superstar.
Speaker 1: I don't quite personally think he's a superstar yet, because
Speaker 1: superstar to me is worldwide, everybody know you, and to me,
Speaker 1: there's only a few superstars in the NBA. But Shaye
Speaker 1: has superstar level talent. However, just because you have superstar
Speaker 1: level talent doesn't always make you a super stars. For
Speaker 1: Shae Gilgers Alexander to take that next step, there are
Speaker 1: certain things that superstar does. Like, for instance, like I
Speaker 1: said the interview, Shaye, people want to hear what you
Speaker 1: gotta say.
Speaker 3: They want to hear as you speak, They want to hear.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts exactly, and they don't want to hear it
Speaker 1: with seven guys in the background.
Speaker 3: They don't want to hear.
Speaker 1: That because they're not actually getting to experience who Shake
Speaker 1: Gilgas Alexander is and that's what the world wants. And
Speaker 1: by the way, like I said, that goes hand to
Speaker 1: hand with taking that next step and becoming Shake Gilgers Alexander,
Speaker 1: Not Shake Gilgs Alexander, who all the players look at
Speaker 1: and be like yo, he nice, But shake Gilgs Alexander
Speaker 1: that all the players look at and be like, I'm
Speaker 1: not looking forward to facing him today. Like everybody know
Speaker 1: going into the game that Shae gonna get you thirty.
Speaker 1: But now it's time to instill that fear and all
Speaker 1: of that goes into that. And by the way, I
Speaker 1: sha got that killer and got that dog in them.
Speaker 3: But he gotta get got no choice but to his team.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying, you gotta give all that to his team,
Speaker 2: and he gotta like, hey, man, like all these games
Speaker 2: and ship and playing around like that shit cool, but like, yo,
Speaker 2: come on, guys, you know what I mean. Like I
Speaker 2: remember my second year in the league. Uh, Sacramento. Uh,
Speaker 2: Chris Webber, they came to Charlotte bro and they was
Speaker 2: tripping and Chris Weber was like, yo, it was the
Speaker 2: second game of the season. He was like, Yo, we
Speaker 2: did not come in this season to be bullshit. Were
Speaker 2: trying to get a championship.
Speaker 3: Lock in.
Speaker 2: I was like, damn this game too. They talking about championship,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? They talking about they on
Speaker 2: the so like, and that's the year you see Sacramento
Speaker 2: take that league.
Speaker 3: Because it's like, man, you.
Speaker 2: Gotta you gotta put yourself from the beginning this season
Speaker 2: in that moment, I don't want no If you don't
Speaker 2: have no friends, you gotta you gotta be championship.
Speaker 1: You know, people don't understand this. Championships are not one
Speaker 1: in April, May and June. That's actually the whole thing
Speaker 1: with the Joe L ANDV thing is like championship, championship
Speaker 1: is a championship is the processes like it is a
Speaker 1: process from day one and every day practice games, you're
Speaker 1: chipping away at that and you chip away and ship away,
Speaker 1: you have a setback, chip away, chip away, chip away,
Speaker 1: set take two steps back, chip away, chip away. It's
Speaker 1: an everyday process over the course of nine months.
Speaker 3: It's not just get to April healthy, get to May
Speaker 3: healthy and we're good. Nah, you building every single day
Speaker 3: and and that's what those guys gotta understand that there's
Speaker 3: just gotta be a certain seriousness. And it was cool
Speaker 3: when y'all were the new guys on the block last
Speaker 3: year coming out winning fifty plus games. Now you're expected
Speaker 3: to do that. We expect y'all to win these regular seasons.
Speaker 1: We don't need seven guys in the press conference anymore.
Speaker 1: We need shake gilgss Alexander and then lou Dort's gonna
Speaker 1: have a great game and they ain't gonna want Shaye
Speaker 1: that night. They gonna want to do because he clamped
Speaker 1: somebody and he had twenty And we need.
Speaker 3: Lou Dort in that interview.
Speaker 1: And that's the type of seriousness that this group I
Speaker 1: think it's going to need in order to take that
Speaker 1: next step, because what they must understand is you got
Speaker 1: a year or two to take the next step. If
Speaker 1: you don't, you start pulling pieces out and you start
Speaker 1: plugging other guys in, and you pull this guy out,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Shay gonna be making three
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars and Check gonna be making three hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars.
Speaker 3: Can they also afford to pay Jayle Williams three hundred
Speaker 3: million dollars? Then you start to run into those issues.
Speaker 1: So you gotta take advantage of it as soon as
Speaker 1: your window open, because as fast as that window open
Speaker 1: close success even faster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's you crazy if you don't take
Speaker 2: that moment right now, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 2: you gotta be you also got to be aware and
Speaker 2: have a great deal of respect. But who in front
Speaker 2: of you, who next to you, and who coming behind you?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Because it's every year it's
Speaker 2: like you don't know, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: But okay, so need to mature.
Speaker 2: If they mature, if they mature this year, and take
Speaker 2: that leap all of them and get serious and get
Speaker 2: serious about Hey man, we won this game. Let's get
Speaker 2: to the next one. You know what I mean, They're
Speaker 2: gonna They're gonna be all right.
Speaker 3: Speaking like speaking of some of the teams, I saw.
Speaker 2: In an interview my boy Yiannis, now my son loves
Speaker 2: Jannis bro and he was talking about how the Bucks
Speaker 2: need to find their identity, like that's a bi word
Speaker 2: and sports that's almost like a bad word in sports,
Speaker 2: a good word or a bad word. They just failed
Speaker 2: to one in three. And when it comes to the
Speaker 2: team finding an identity like who like who says the
Speaker 2: precedents players are coaches.
Speaker 3: It's it starts with coaches.
Speaker 1: The coaches have to come in with a certain swagger,
Speaker 1: with a certain confidence, with a certain seriousness to.
Speaker 3: A let guys know what their roles are.
Speaker 1: I think on any great team, coaches come in and
Speaker 1: they define and it's not all right, Draymond, your role
Speaker 1: is boom boom boom. Steph your role is boom boom boom.
Speaker 1: Clay your role or not Clay, it's a national thing. VP,
Speaker 1: your role is boom boom boom.
Speaker 3: It's like no.
Speaker 1: You come in and they start establishing this is what
Speaker 1: we need. These are the roles to feel you're gonna
Speaker 1: you know, we need you in this spot. And you
Speaker 1: start to figure out your identity and what's spurs your roles.
Speaker 1: You discuss what it is that what we want our
Speaker 1: identity to be. Right, So we want our identity to
Speaker 1: be X. We want our identity to be a great
Speaker 1: defensive team. We want our identity to be a fast
Speaker 1: paced offensive team. You push the ball, get up and down.
Speaker 1: That's what we want our identity to be. So from
Speaker 1: day one, that's what we're trying to build. Right, And
Speaker 1: so it starts with coaches then and most to your
Speaker 1: best players. What are y'all doing on a day to
Speaker 1: day basis to make sure that you're bringing X so
Speaker 1: that everyone.
Speaker 3: Else knows they got to bring Y and Z because
Speaker 3: if the.
Speaker 1: Top players are bringing X, everybody else you have to
Speaker 1: bring wires here. You're no good here and so then
Speaker 1: it starts with players. And I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 1: One thing that coaches on used to teach us, and
Speaker 1: he would always say, is a saying he would always say,
Speaker 1: he said, a player coach team, it's better.
Speaker 3: Than a coach coach team. And that was his motto.
Speaker 1: When we had a leader that was coaching up the
Speaker 1: team and holding guys responsible on the court, that things
Speaker 1: that Isoe didn't have to do. Because he had a
Speaker 1: leader doing that, it makes his life easier, and make
Speaker 1: your players and make your players relationship with him better,
Speaker 1: and all of these things right, and the things that
Speaker 1: he had to focus on changes. It allows him to
Speaker 1: expand his bandwidth because he don't have to focus on that.
Speaker 1: And so as much as it is coaches have to establish,
Speaker 1: it then falls on the players.
Speaker 3: Who are you going to bree What are you bringing
Speaker 3: to the table, what type of intensity are you coming
Speaker 3: to the table with each and every game? And then
Speaker 3: what is important is when even important to us?
Speaker 1: Because if it is important to us, then we'll do
Speaker 1: the things that we've identified that we want our identity
Speaker 1: to be. If winning is not the most important thing
Speaker 1: to us, we usually become a team that is not
Speaker 1: sure what the identity are, and you don't know from
Speaker 1: night to night what team is going to show up.
Speaker 3: And those teams can't win an A And I've been.
Speaker 2: On a lot of those teams, right and for real,
Speaker 2: I've been on a lot of those teams, and like
Speaker 2: the thing is, man, it's like there's no trust or communication,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And so when I look
Speaker 2: at Milwaukee, you don't trust the system, right, there is
Speaker 2: no system that's putting you in a position to where
Speaker 2: your game you feel like your game, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. Everybody stuck in the corner, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. And Nis and Dame Lillard are stuck in
Speaker 2: the corner, are stuck in their separate corner, and they
Speaker 2: not communicating. Right then, now you gotta go to the
Speaker 2: coach as the guys talk to the coach, you know. Now,
Speaker 2: Now it's therapy, right and it ain't basketball. You ain't
Speaker 2: figuring it out, You ain't figuring it out together. And
Speaker 2: the team that don't communicate right, like like the Bucks
Speaker 2: need a little bit of whatout Okay, see guy, because
Speaker 2: they're too.
Speaker 3: Serious, you know what I mean, They're almost too.
Speaker 2: It's a unique because Giannis has won a championship, right,
Speaker 2: he is, like, that's his determination.
Speaker 3: And so if people are not up to that level.
Speaker 2: Or can't get there, or a coach can't bring them
Speaker 2: to that level, then that's where you have identity issues.
Speaker 2: But I excuse me. I would always say, even the
Speaker 2: Boston team with KG and Paul and Ray Allen, I
Speaker 2: mean they got one, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 2: I would say for a team like that with all
Speaker 2: that talent in that era, how they put that together, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean? They were beatable, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 2: Like Doc the way he puts this team together, the
Speaker 2: way he coaches his teams. His teams are extremely talented.
Speaker 2: But the way the system is is you're playing against
Speaker 2: the system. So you can beat you can beat them
Speaker 2: playing Doc system. And so it's got to be a
Speaker 2: little bit of Doc gotta figure it out, Johannis and
Speaker 2: Dame gotta figure it out. But everybody else on the
Speaker 2: team gonna say, hey, man, we ballers, this is what
Speaker 2: we like to do. And then you gotta go and
Speaker 2: try and force that in the game. Right, can't be
Speaker 2: sitting back at one and three saying, man, we don't
Speaker 2: know what all right? You got to go established one
Speaker 2: now and almost go Kama Kazi until you get in flow,
Speaker 2: because it sounds like they ain't been in flow from
Speaker 2: last year. They have a good training camp, it sounded
Speaker 2: like they ain't coming into the season, and it's still
Speaker 2: like a major disconnection between your top three.
Speaker 3: People, your coach, and your two superstars.
Speaker 1: So I asked you this question because I actually came
Speaker 1: across this earlier today and I haven't thought nothing of
Speaker 1: it until we just started talking about the bucks. I
Speaker 1: came across a clip earlier today and Gil was talking
Speaker 1: about Dame and he pretty much said he doesn't think
Speaker 1: Dame has figured out how to pick and choose his
Speaker 1: spots when he should be looking to score gils. And
Speaker 1: he compared it to himself in Washington when he had
Speaker 1: twin Walker.
Speaker 3: And or no twin James. Larry Hughes.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, way absolutely, And so he compared it to
Speaker 1: himself and he said, listen, I would just pass to
Speaker 1: those guys to start the gain. Let them drive Karan
Speaker 1: get into the cup getting fouled.
Speaker 2: Why am I just drawing a black Larry Hughes and yeah,
Speaker 2: Antoine Jamison getting to the hole getting fouled, And I
Speaker 2: let them get the files up.
Speaker 1: Now once they start getting the team to like three
Speaker 1: and four files, I know you have to guard me differently,
Speaker 1: is what he said. He said, I know you have
Speaker 1: to guard me differently because we're in the bonus and
Speaker 1: so now I can really attack you. Now I can
Speaker 1: take advantage of my skill and and so Gil made
Speaker 1: the comparison. He was like, he don't think Dame is
Speaker 1: letting Yannis go go go, and then pick and choosing
Speaker 1: his spots. He said, he think Dames come out, take
Speaker 1: three or four tough shots and then if you miss him, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it's kind of tough from there. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that? I can't necessarily speak to that.
Speaker 1: I'm not a point guard or I was never just
Speaker 1: scoring guard.
Speaker 3: What what are you? What are your thoughts? I totally agree.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: Dave is super talent, He's super elite, and for the
Speaker 2: majority of his career he had to come out and
Speaker 2: damn near put up forty for them to have a
Speaker 2: chance to win. Right when he played with LaMarcus Aldiers,
Speaker 2: give it to LaMarcus Aldiers, let him anchor.
Speaker 3: I think he got to start going back to.
Speaker 2: That mentality, like, okay, I got Yannis, Let me low,
Speaker 2: Yannis up.
Speaker 3: Let me get.
Speaker 2: These dudes going right, and not that you're not it's
Speaker 2: not yourself, but it's not your points, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Like you starting to game him three four, five,
Speaker 2: three pointers in the first quarter, Like that's not going
Speaker 2: to help the Bucks win, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like if it was Portland, Oh yeah, he about to
Speaker 2: go off. Everybody is gonna rise to that level because
Speaker 2: he's elevated and Milwaukee Bucks Land, that's like keeping you
Speaker 2: in the game the way they play, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. So he gotta learn how to finesse the
Speaker 2: situation so it opens up for him, right, and so
Speaker 2: be dame time. Right, script, like write a script for yourself, right,
Speaker 2: go home, write a script for yourself every game. Write
Speaker 2: a script. This is where y'an is gonna give me. Boom,
Speaker 2: this is what port is gonna give me. This is
Speaker 2: what I'm getting from low pays. This is what I
Speaker 2: need in this game. And then four minutes six, we
Speaker 2: have six. It's dame time, and so you you start
Speaker 2: making your points matter based Oh damn, we down six.
Speaker 2: Let me go get to the line. Boom, we have six.
Speaker 2: Let me take let me take two of these just
Speaker 2: to see if I can put some distance, right, And
Speaker 2: so I think it's more so Dame trying to Once again,
Speaker 2: it's the system, Dame trying to figure out how to
Speaker 2: do Dame time and Yannis trying to figure out how
Speaker 2: to do Yanni's time.
Speaker 3: And so if you remember, with.
Speaker 2: The Clippers, you had Chris Paul and Blake Griffin and
Speaker 2: they played two different styles.
Speaker 3: And that's why the Clippers can never beat you guys,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: They could be They beat San Antonio because Blake played well,
Speaker 2: Chris Paul played well, but together, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: there wasn't like they didn't dominate the game. They actually
Speaker 2: like allowed you to stay in the game because one
Speaker 2: player was balling the other player was balling. But if
Speaker 2: they were ever balling in sync, they were gonna blow
Speaker 2: your ass out out, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 2: I think that's where Milwaukee is kind of handicapped because
Speaker 2: there's no there's no connective tissue.
Speaker 3: For like Yin and Yang. There's no Yin and Yang.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, for sure, well number one, under no circumstance
Speaker 1: with the Clippers ever going to blow. It's how But
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Number two, when I when I played for an accident, I
Speaker 3: play against you before he was Oh, the w the.
Speaker 2: Clippers though, like twenty two in the third quarter came
Speaker 2: back to Golden State.
Speaker 3: I was watched though, So check this though, Check this.
Speaker 3: So if you say dang Yannis is the one that
Speaker 3: has won the championship, Dame is still kind of figuring
Speaker 3: out his way there. At what point does the onus
Speaker 3: fault on you Yiannis.
Speaker 1: To maybe get Dame because Dame could also make life
Speaker 1: easier on him.
Speaker 3: So where is it? Or is it just all this system? Bro?
Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying, because if you look at
Speaker 3: Giannis in this system, he don't play like Yiannis you did?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like he not pushing.
Speaker 2: It, he not taking it, you know, taking it on
Speaker 2: the wing and saying hold on, like ask for forgiveness later. Right,
Speaker 2: So he he's kind of lost a little bit of
Speaker 2: who he is and how he could help Dang right
Speaker 2: or like it's almost like they're trying to help each
Speaker 2: other so much that they're overworking.
Speaker 3: Without working together, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And then when you go into the system like identity
Speaker 2: is a system thing, because if Jannie is saying, we
Speaker 2: got an idea problem, that means somebody don't know who
Speaker 2: the man around here, and then somebody don't know who
Speaker 2: the man when the man is supposed to be around here,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And so everybody's uncomfortable, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And so that system the way
Speaker 2: they play. There are only two playmakers on that team,
Speaker 2: j Honest and Dame Lillard. And Dame Lillard is a
Speaker 2: scoring playmaker. Yannis is a scoring playmaker, a defensive playmaker.
Speaker 2: Neither one of those guys are assist guys. They don't
Speaker 2: set They're not They wasn't molded to be great to
Speaker 2: set people up. Their greatness is in their points, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, and their pressure that they put
Speaker 2: on defense from an offensive standpoint, Yannis on both ends
Speaker 2: of the floor. You feel what I'm saying, Like Dame
Speaker 2: is not gonna be jew Holiday for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Bucks gotta gonna find somebody that can do that,
Speaker 2: so Dame can be a better version of whoever was
Speaker 2: the two guard when they want it, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 3: For sure, so does Chris Middleton. Whenever he get back
Speaker 3: from injury, does he change that or do you still
Speaker 3: have the same No it well.
Speaker 2: One, I wanted to see Chris healthy because you know
Speaker 2: he's but he's another score, right, And so if you're
Speaker 2: asking Chris Middleton to come back and be the Chris
Speaker 2: Middleton he was during the finals, then you a fool,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, because he was bringing the.
Speaker 3: Ball up, he was playmaking.
Speaker 2: They need somebody that can break down the defense, or
Speaker 2: it needs somebody that can look for people, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, And you know they need they need
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons.
Speaker 3: I was just about to say, you think so you
Speaker 3: think is the answer?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, hell yeah. Okay, all right, but I don't
Speaker 3: think the system is going to work.
Speaker 2: I think you know they have something good with Agent
Speaker 2: Griffin whatever. Like Bro, you know how the drama go.
Speaker 2: When it's drama, that's all drama and soap opera. Milwaukee
Speaker 2: has found themselves in the basketball soap opera of oh
Speaker 2: you used to be good. Now you're about to go
Speaker 2: through some ship. Now you gotta figure it out. Now
Speaker 2: you're gonna unravel it, and you don't want to piss
Speaker 2: off your honest, because he can piece it back together.
Speaker 1: So might I remind you that Doc Rivers was the
Speaker 1: coach of the Ben Simmons fall out and physic I know,
Speaker 1: the squad necessarily going to be the guy.
Speaker 3: Doc Rivers they did and build special bro.
Speaker 2: Because he will put you in a system that only
Speaker 2: he knows how to coach it.
Speaker 3: So so you So that's what you're saying.
Speaker 2: The problem is it's not Dame, it's it's the system.
Speaker 3: And the way you built the team.
Speaker 2: And so you built the team around two guys that
Speaker 2: are incredible basketball players, right, but you have nobody in
Speaker 2: the middle that's bringing them to a point of their
Speaker 2: ultimate capacity.
Speaker 3: If Dame is going, Giannis ain't going.
Speaker 2: If Giannis is going, Dame ain't going, Why the fuck
Speaker 2: aren't they both going at the same time?
Speaker 3: They're deadly in the pick and roll together.
Speaker 2: Of course, who's on the opposite side, Yeah, right, what's
Speaker 2: happening on the opposite side?
Speaker 3: Who else is chiming in?
Speaker 2: Who else is making a play for a Dame or
Speaker 2: or a play for Giannis? So when Janni's make a
Speaker 2: play for Dame and he wide open, it's like, damn,
Speaker 2: I'm wide open. I ain't never been wide open and
Speaker 2: my entire Dame Lillard has never been wide open in
Speaker 2: his entire career unless he made himself wide open. Feel
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So like it's new to him too.
Speaker 2: But they gotta get that connective tissue. And I think
Speaker 2: you gotta change the system, right, y'all gotta fast break,
Speaker 2: y'all gotta get back to playing defense, right, But you
Speaker 2: gotta let you gotta let Damon Giannis figure the ship
Speaker 2: out and get out the way sometimes as a coach,
Speaker 2: because you still don't get wins based on their.
Speaker 3: Talent facts facts. I respect it all right, what so.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Sorry, Doc, I ain't no real I'm just you
Speaker 2: know what I'm looking at coaching. I'm like, yo, a
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers team is a bit a beatable team. I
Speaker 2: don't know how much talent they got because they only
Speaker 2: playing patterns.
Speaker 3: Pattern Okay, I respect it. So, speaking of Ben Simmons,
Speaker 3: did you see the fan yesterday when Ben Simmons is
Speaker 3: walking past, tell him he's trash to his face. That
Speaker 3: was crazy, bro in Orlando.
Speaker 1: So in Orlando, you walk to the locker room and
Speaker 1: they had this guard rail up and you're walking right
Speaker 1: next to a bunch of fans, which number one is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: They allow fans to line up right there when you're
Speaker 3: going in the locker room, when you're coming out, people
Speaker 3: standing there screaming, trying to get all the grass.
Speaker 1: And NBA locker room is the most non private place.
Speaker 3: In the building.
Speaker 1: Like there's no privacy. You're getting dressed, there's people in
Speaker 1: the locker room. You're doing media like you're you're getting
Speaker 1: prepped before the game. There's people in the locker room.
Speaker 1: As soon as the coaches break the huddle after the game,
Speaker 1: there's people.
Speaker 3: In the locker room. It has to be the most insane,
Speaker 3: nonsanity or however you want to frame it, place in
Speaker 3: an NBA locker room. I mean in the NBA arena,
Speaker 3: it's just like open season. Like you go and you
Speaker 3: do what you want.
Speaker 1: There's a million people in Orlando next to like, but
Speaker 1: then if we say something back.
Speaker 3: We get in trouble. We get fun.
Speaker 1: But this kid who's standing out with his dad is
Speaker 1: going to say say, in my face, I'm trash.
Speaker 3: He don't know what it takes to make it to
Speaker 3: the NBA.
Speaker 1: You really want to beat his data for letting him
Speaker 1: talk like that control your kid.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just like, oh, respect the game.
Speaker 1: Fans can like they pretty much say what they want
Speaker 1: to you, and you just have to take it. And
Speaker 1: just the empowerment of fans to say what they want
Speaker 1: to say to us as if we're not human beings.
Speaker 2: Now, we just got to hit them back on track,
Speaker 2: like we just got to like bring your mama back,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like your mama, your daddy,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean? Yo, what shut.
Speaker 2: I have one of those little laughing uh those little things.
Speaker 3: Wow, shut up. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I thought that was wild, but I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: Shorter came back to this defense being kind of said,
Speaker 1: why you ain't saying in my face?
Speaker 3: But you know, I just think that's always been an
Speaker 3: ongoing issue. They still ain't figured it out. Yeah, probably
Speaker 3: never going to figure it out. It's just something that
Speaker 3: we have to do.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 3: That's and it is what it is. It is.
Speaker 2: Bro Donald's before we get out of here, though, Bro Donald,
Speaker 2: Oh go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I played with the Clippers. Bro.
Speaker 2: We won a game, and he came in there with
Speaker 2: like no lie, like eight old ass ladies. They have
Speaker 2: to be like late fifties sixties. I mean they looked
Speaker 2: like they was seventy eighty. And he came in when
Speaker 2: I athorized, Bro, bullshit you not. And coaches just finished
Speaker 2: and he said, hey, lady, you know meet the guys.
Speaker 2: And I'm sitting right at the door. And he was like, man,
Speaker 2: you can sit in here. You can sit right here
Speaker 2: and talk to him. Wait till he take his towel off.
Speaker 2: Whoa chill?
Speaker 3: And the old lady was just sitting here, ask me
Speaker 3: how kind of question?
Speaker 2: Bro, I'm sitting there with my toil like, Bro, I'm
Speaker 2: not about to I'm about to wake this old lady.
Speaker 3: Yuh, I'm not about to get up. Bro.
Speaker 2: It was hey, Bro, it was dial biller. She was
Speaker 2: waiting for you to take the locker room. It was crazy, Bro.
Speaker 3: He was like wait. He was like, wait for that's nuts.
Speaker 1: I tell you what though, I will tell you what
Speaker 1: all that's gonna take. It's for somebody to get sued.
Speaker 1: In this climate. You got so many people in the
Speaker 1: locker room. People can say anything. Guess what you're Even
Speaker 1: if you ain't guilty, you're guilty by public perception. And
Speaker 1: we live in a world where you're guilty until proven innocent,
Speaker 1: and once you're proven innocent, nobody's going.
Speaker 3: To talk about it.
Speaker 1: But before you're proven innocent, you're going to get talked
Speaker 1: about like a dog, like you're guilty. And all that's
Speaker 1: gonna take is for someone to sue and say X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z. But it's just unfair to players that
Speaker 1: you have to be putting.
Speaker 3: You can't say.
Speaker 2: Nothing in the locker room no more, right, you feel
Speaker 2: like even if he knows, even if you were even
Speaker 2: if it was a team inside joke after the game
Speaker 2: and you yelled something right, and people can take anything
Speaker 2: now out of context, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's just, man, this shit is crazy.
Speaker 2: Like they got to be some type of like privacy
Speaker 2: for like the players and the team to have a
Speaker 2: moment before people rushing in, even for some players like
Speaker 2: say you did something wrong or say something happened in
Speaker 2: the game, Like get that, dude, the moment, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, and maybe talk to the team, talk,
Speaker 2: you know, talk to the players and be like, hey, bro,
Speaker 2: don't do that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Don't crash out.
Speaker 2: But the media be trying to now, they trying to,
Speaker 2: They be trying to make you crash out on them.
Speaker 3: Nah, for sure, for sure, it's a it's a media
Speaker 3: or maybe. But right after the coach to media come
Speaker 3: right in. So you got about five.
Speaker 1: Minutes, maybe exactly three to five minutes and the head
Speaker 1: of the PR PR guy gonna come in, like all right,
Speaker 1: we open the media and they and they're in the
Speaker 1: locker room literally three to five minutes after the coach
Speaker 1: walk out, no time, and that's what guys are left
Speaker 1: dealing with. It's like, so, by the way, three to
Speaker 1: five minutes, if it was a rough ending to the game,
Speaker 1: you ain't even had time to like take a deep breath. Coach,
Speaker 1: just talk right, you may say something to the guy.
Speaker 1: They see you before, look at your phone.
Speaker 3: Before you know it, it's over people in your face,
Speaker 3: right in your face. And it's something that guys have
Speaker 3: complained about for years.
Speaker 1: It's something that went away during COVID, and you thought
Speaker 1: it was one of those things like marijuana that went
Speaker 1: away during COVID.
Speaker 3: They'm testing for marijuana.
Speaker 1: They it would be one of those things, now that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, But they stopped testing for that during COVID.
Speaker 1: They also stopped letting media members in for pretty much
Speaker 1: a year and a half where you didn't have.
Speaker 3: To the lock conference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, And everybody was like, yo, this is great
Speaker 1: and thought like that would be the end of it,
Speaker 1: and then it came back and I just don't understand
Speaker 1: we live in today.
Speaker 3: I don't talk to media before the game. I don't
Speaker 3: talk to him before the game. You got whispers. You
Speaker 3: know what I had dropper before?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had an eavesdropper before that when Kadi was
Speaker 1: on our team where we were having a conversation in
Speaker 1: the locker room.
Speaker 3: I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: It was in Utah and the guy tweeted like a
Speaker 1: conversation we was having and I was just like, yo,
Speaker 1: like you can't like we're not talking to you, having
Speaker 1: a conversation amongst each other and you eavesdrop on our
Speaker 1: conversation and then go tweet it. But you know, you
Speaker 1: always talk about like the protection of the players, and
Speaker 1: there is none. It's afraid of players and it's crazy
Speaker 1: you don't you And yet nothing gets accomplished by media
Speaker 1: being in the locker room before the game.
Speaker 3: Guess what.
Speaker 1: The media come in the locker room after the game.
Speaker 1: And then Raymond Rivers saying all right, I'm taking Draymond
Speaker 1: up to the media room. What's the point, Like, help
Speaker 1: me nand that why they come in here. But I
Speaker 1: was just sitting in my locker. Help me understand that.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know, man, It's one of those
Speaker 1: ridiculous things that you would have been. I'm not even
Speaker 1: going to say need to go away, because you would
Speaker 1: have thought, let's keep it.
Speaker 3: Maybe if we say, hey, everybody, keep it till get
Speaker 3: rid of it, because it should have been gone on.
Speaker 3: I think should get rid of it because it creates
Speaker 3: more of a mistake.
Speaker 2: You're not getting dudes with cameras with towels on, they
Speaker 2: shirt off, you like, get them at the podium dressed up.
Speaker 3: It just creates more of a.
Speaker 2: Vibe for what the league is trying to do with
Speaker 2: fashion and personality and shit like that, instead of the
Speaker 2: mistake of you know, somebody with a camera and a
Speaker 2: locker and like, I ain't even I'm getting dressed, somebody
Speaker 2: getting an interview. I'm in the back, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. And so like it's just cut out all
Speaker 2: the confusion.
Speaker 1: It's really uncomfortable. It's really uncomfortable in the locker room.
Speaker 1: You have men, you have women, and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get in the shower. It is a very very very
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and is supposed to be.
Speaker 3: It's a very uncomfortable space walking around in the tower
Speaker 3: with a bunch of people that just come in with you.
Speaker 3: You know what they're in there for. It's a real Yeah,
Speaker 3: I can do that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, purchase okay.
Speaker 2: Man man were speaking in you know, locker room and
Speaker 2: backing in the locker room. Uh right now, my boys,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers up three to zero.
Speaker 3: In New York.
Speaker 2: The media of us be in the Yankee locker room.
Speaker 3: I'm a Yankee fan. Sorry, I'm a Yankee fan.
Speaker 1: And however, you know, my guy, Peter Goober is the
Speaker 1: owner of the Dodgers, So I'm not up.
Speaker 3: I'm not upset. I want to be a Yankee magic
Speaker 3: and not because I've been a Yankee fan.
Speaker 1: Since I wast How can I am upset?
Speaker 3: I want to win. I want to win. But you know,
Speaker 3: I'm happy for Peter. I'm happy for Peter.
Speaker 1: But the series isn't over yet. We're not going to
Speaker 1: do what we're doing. Look at you, bro.
Speaker 3: I'm happy for Peter. I didn't say I was happy
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers. Said, he don't want you to be
Speaker 3: happy for us.
Speaker 2: It does not you are a New York Yankee fan,
Speaker 2: it does not feel good when we win that you
Speaker 2: guys are like, oh you guys beat us. Were like, no,
Speaker 2: we want you to hate us. That is the problem
Speaker 2: with the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got too, we got we got twenty eight World
Speaker 1: Series front know what more you want a nice guy?
Speaker 1: You have twenty eight y'all just made y'all twenty third appearance.
Speaker 3: We got twenty eight offs.
Speaker 2: Okay, we on the way, on the way though, we're
Speaker 2: on the way. Uh tiny ten years? Hello, hello, those
Speaker 2: contracts are bad. After three years? No, no, no, his
Speaker 2: whole contract is for three years. His whole contract after
Speaker 2: three years. Yeah, after three years, y'all go.
Speaker 3: Three million a year the wagon. It's a shame they
Speaker 3: let your shake like that. Hey, bro, that's smart, that's
Speaker 3: smart business. Bro. You would do you know what you
Speaker 3: would do it?
Speaker 1: Y'all about to Yeah, it went wrong for in Game one, man,
Speaker 1: we should we took Game one.
Speaker 3: It changed as a series. We let it get away.
Speaker 3: What happened and now y'all feeling good? Oh you know what.
Speaker 1: Happened in game drama? Because you probably didn't believe. You
Speaker 1: weren't believing that at that point, so you weren't watching.
Speaker 1: And then you hop on the band wagon. You probably
Speaker 1: Angels fan anyway, and now you want to act like
Speaker 1: you're a Dodger angel from.
Speaker 3: Your angel a Yankee fan from Michigan. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolute, that, okay, absolutely that. You know you know, you
Speaker 2: know who My favorite Dodger is. Fernando Venezuela. Come on,
Speaker 2: you know who my favorite Yankee is outside of the Captain.
Speaker 2: Outside of the Captain and Malavera. My favorite Yankee growing
Speaker 2: up was Darryl Strawberry and Chuck.
Speaker 3: Daryl Strawberry from Crinshaw High l A. He wanted to
Speaker 3: be a I got to do with me, wanted to
Speaker 3: be inta Dodger. We birth shout out to Kris Shawha.
Speaker 3: But he went over there to win championship. The Dodgers
Speaker 3: wasn't winning those chi ships.
Speaker 1: Then he went over there. We birthed Daryl st championship.
Speaker 1: He was off to Krenshaw High. But he went to
Speaker 1: he went to He went over there.
Speaker 3: The essence of the day he went over there. He
Speaker 3: went over there. He went over there.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, hey, bro, I'm in air one I
Speaker 2: did five laps around the air one.
Speaker 1: And now he wanted to come alive. He has zero
Speaker 1: home runs and won RBI at the time, and he
Speaker 1: wanted to look up man Ster Slam.
Speaker 3: You heard it here first. The Yankees coming back because
Speaker 3: guys who don't win championships get excited before the series
Speaker 3: is over. And now the Yankees coming back and we're
Speaker 3: about to take this world series.
Speaker 1: You heard it here first. That's a rap from your
Speaker 1: two guys. Appreciate y'all to it, and now check us
Speaker 1: out later this week.